One joke, perhaps, and then a long silence while she talks about herself .
And one joke, as an aside, should not become the focus of the campaign or the coverage of the campaign.
"He literally told one joke on that show and that made him as a comedian, " presenter Michael Parkinson tells CNN.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a broad satire of musician biopics like Walk the Line, proves that (a) the conventions of biopics really are lame, and (b) you can get a lot of laughs out of basically one joke if your lead is John C.
If men are the only group one can joke about exterminating, perhaps it means that we really do live in a male-dominated culture--one in which men are the only group about which such a joke runs no risk of being taken seriously.
"The Muse"'s one-joke monotony is relieved on occasion, usually by unexpected cameos from Brooks' film-world cronies.
Why, for one good joke in particular, did they not occur at all?
Al Jean, an executive producer for the show, said one Fox joke involved a parody of the news "crawl" running on News Corp. cable-news network Fox News.
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The one-joke-for-all-people theory is the reason why Mr Izzard, who came to the fore as a motor-mouthed transvestite, thought he could play Bruce, the fast-talking, short-lived, stand-up comedian who became famous in the early 1960s for saying the unsayable.
If we say that no one should ever joke about violence committed against children, gay or not, from this day forth, it ends.
That is, that the joke is one to be shared with said editors and the readers, not a joke upon the editors and the readers.
No, no one who tells the joke nor I in repeating it think that this is the best path: or even an acceptable one.
One senses a Kubrickian joke: the humans are empty and cruel, the robots sensitive and noble.
One half-hearted joke holds that by Monopoly rules, the Islamists who have taken four North African countries in a row can now build houses and hotels.
And unmarried partners owe each other nothing if they split no joke if one party has given up his career and has no claim to the family home or pension.
One lawyer said the joke was at the expense of Yale Law School, where Justice Clarence studied, while another lawyer said Harvard Law School was the target of the joke, the Associated Press reported.
There is, however, at least one casualty: The favorite joke of Ester Levanon, CEO of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange.
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FIS, during a dental check-up grimly put paid to the joke that the one place an Arab could open his mouth was at the dentist's.
It sounds like atonal music, or so goes the joke, a one-liner as inescapable as the popular response to abstract art: My child could paint that.
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"This must be a joke, " said one trendy-looking young woman who frequents good restaurants in Tokyo.
We actually at one point thought it was a joke and we learned about ten seconds later that it was very real.
The intended joke is that no one in Hollywood really knows what "edgy" is supposed to mean, even though it gets bandied about in film development offices on a daily basis.
Occasionally, for a joke, he would shoot one in the butt as it fled.
"If you brought up SkyMall in conversation, it was the one product that someone would make a joke about, " he said.
The caricature of Biden as a loony, unhinged, troublemaker is a very popular running joke for The Onion, one that Biden himself is said to appreciate.
Castro's people joke among themselves, says one longtime Havana resident, that if they are going to receive any type of medical attention, they'd best get themselves to where they can find some of those Cuban doctors.
The naked sexism of the promotion made more than one observer wonder whether it was a joke, but notice of it on the Santa Anita Park Facebook page indicates that it is indeed for real.
While each of these examples is rare and probably stem from one employee's idea of a joke, companies know it could take only an occasional mistake to see years of built-up brand equity hit a bear market.
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