Meanwhile, comedian Jimmy Carr has apologised for a joke about a car crash posted online.
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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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It sounds like the setup for a joke, as God only knows what freakish mollusks lurk in that fetid post-industrial waterway.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Anti-Defamation League slammed the host for a joke made by Ted (voiced by MacFarlane) about Jews in Hollywood.
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Some insiders call Raikes' division the dead cash cow, a mordant joke for a guy who grew up around cattle.
But hours later, the 16-year-old learned classmates voted for her as a joke.
His rants are so off-the-wall there is little mistaking them for anything but a joke (he has vowed to rid American wrestling of the Mexican influence, even if that means deporting wrestlers from the locker room).
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Figure John Paulson was a joke on Wall Street for shorting mortgage securities until he was no longer a joke, so to presume that ratings agencies could have moved against a powerful market tide seems a reach.
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One thing Mr Faye's family folklore taught him was that there was no such thing as a new joke in showbiz, just new ways of pushing a joke for laughs.
In a case that was later dismissed, actress Tara Reid sued the owners of the Sky Las Vegas Condominiums project in 2005 for using her name alongside a lewd joke in an advertisment for the project.
Walker praised Ferrari for turning themselves from a joke into the dominant force in the sport.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been a joke for years.
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The polite smile offered by a bored salesclerk (or by someone hearing a joke for the 100th time) pulls up the lips but, literally, stops there.
Yes, the lyrics of The Beatles' When I'm 64 almost make for a half-decent joke to the opening line of an article, shame that Paul McCartney is 63 and Ringo Starr , 65.
The saga of Berlin's new airport has turned into a national joke and a source of humiliation for a people renowned for being on time.
Reporters flock to junkets for the chance to hear a joke from the star.
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Egyptians have long been envied for their ability to tell a joke.
Lady Gaga, the official creative director for Polaroid (also not a joke), arrived about 40 minutes fashionably late to her event at the camera company's booth.
"It's a big, busy library and someone has played a practical joke - it's gone unnoticed for a while and once staff noticed they changed it, " he said.
Those who dismiss Arnold Schwarzenegger as a robotic action hero should remember that Ronald Reagan was also dismissed as a joke when he first ran for governor and he beat his opponent by more than a million votes.
Joe Dator, a cartoonist for New Yorker magazine, did a variation on the diva joke.
Andy Gerrard, a West Devon Methodist, said for many farmers the rain had gone from a casual joke to a serious threat to their livelihoods.
The professor part may be a joke, but for this hale septuagenarian, a third act of some note is quite possible.
"We as adults might think of this as a joke, but for the children who have cared for her it was a real shock, " he said.
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Monty bristled when I made a bad joke about Ford becoming a car-rental replacement for bloggers.
And Amy, are you going for the normal thing of opening with a joke?
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