Why should anyone care what some online joke-monkey has to say about serious issues?
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Mohamed Kamal, who also performs stand-up with SUCQ, notes that given Qatar's political climate, there are limits to what he can joke about.
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Idea three: Constantly monitor news sites for breaking stories and then try to be the first to tweet an edgy joke about what's happening.
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Now, despite the many learned treatises written on the network effect, it remains unpredictable - what decides whether a joke goes viral, or an appeal for help remains unheard?
Harris then had the information he needed to play what he thought was clever joke.
As it turns out, though, what ThinkGeek ran as a joke was actually a product in development. 2D Glasses are real!
This week's story about John Kerry's botched joke tells us what we already know - that constant attention on everything a politician says or does requires an unusual level of discipline and skill to avoid disaster.
But he has apologized for what he says was a botched joke about the president getting us stuck into Iraq.
That comment is what led Fong to crack his joke about blessing the mainlanders, while at the same time lamenting the fact that they can push up prices for everyone else.
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It sounds like a bad joke, but that is what happened last night in Syracuse.
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"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating, " the statement continued.
It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.
And we joke about Romnesia, but you know what -- this is actually something important -- this is about trust.
Judges seem to relish what has become, more or less, an inside joke among colleagues.
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It is also easy to confuse a conviction with what is merely a good set-up for a joke.
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That is what makes U.N. diversions something between a joke and a crime.
"The TFG is a joke, " he said, wearily contemptuous of what he saw as the clan interests that masquerade as a national government.
Ideally, the content knows where you are and what you want, offering up, say, a midday joke on your pager or a pal's new picture on your phone.
What is happening in college admission, however, is no joke.
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.
Asked what he will do while the floodwaters retreat, Hayes replied with a ready joke.
Although it's not a joke, it's more of a - here's what I'm going to do, Neal.
In other words, like most of what the U.S. government does, the monthly jobs number is a joke.
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The quick joke always plays well in a room at a party but people seldom remember what the message was, or who it was for.
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"We talked about what would happen if it didn't work out, but we did it as a joke because we felt we didn't need to worry about that, " says Florescu.
This little joke, lighthearted as it was at the time, serves as an ironic foreshadowing for what the microblogging site would evolve into.
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