Whenever he made a joke, he seemed to expand, pushing the house and his job aside.
He actually spent as many words apologizing to "many women" for telling the joke as he did on the joke itself (more if you construe his warning of "politically incorrect jokes" as part of the apology).
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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And he was not all that conflicted about success (he used to joke to journalists that he drove a BMW because it stood for Bob Marley and the Wailers).
When he made a joke or a quip, he shook it and rapped it on his knee and elbow and shook it again.
But Charlie happens to be my third child and by the time he starts college, we like to joke that he better have a scholarship lined up.
The owner of an aquatics shop who is being sued by a policeman has said he "thought it was a joke" when he received the compensation claim letter.
The show appeals to children with "these brightly colored people with grocery-bag-shaped heads, " he says, and then it will throw in a Schopenhauer joke, he observes.
The executive promptly fell on his sword, and he cracked a joke at the same time.
Derek Kinghorn, 44, stabbed Dunfermline-born Brian Mair to death after he made a joke about his mother.
Hearing that his visitors had driven in Cuba's trademark vintage cars, he made a joke about their Soviet engines.
The last notable joke he endured was April Fool's Day 2002, when two Quebec radio DJs phoned him, pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
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Johnson did have his moment in the spotlight on TV primetime last year when sharing a stage with the likes of Romney in the Republican primary elections, he cracked a joke that made headlines.
With new popularity and success, he has learnt to relax, smile, even joke, though he will never be the back-slapping type.
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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In a statement, Te'o said he had been the victim of a "sick joke", but he did not say whether he had ever met Kekua in person, nor did he correct media reports that he had met her.
He tried to brush the question off with an easy joke, but even he admitted that his mobility and physical strength will be unknowns until he demonstrates otherwise.
He so confused and frightened me that I pretended he was making a joke and laughed.
Harris then had the information he needed to play what he thought was clever joke.
And Costolo should know something about a well-timed joke: He was previously an improvisational comedian in Chicago.
On waking a couple of hours later, he is able to joke about the experience with his team-mates.
Even his closest media advisers joke that he must have someone hidden in a closet somewhere doing his talking.
He's very manufactured and often times his - he had a horrible joke.
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