"If there's no possibility for satire, if you always have to look for the joke that every -- absolutely everyone will get, you won't have Jon Stewart, you won't have Stephen Colbert, " he said.

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There is a joke about making up for the amount you lose by just doing more volume.

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If there is any truth in the old joke that says for every two economists you get three opinions it surely applies to discussions of exchange-rate policy.

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And Amy, are you going for the normal thing of opening with a joke?

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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).

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The great Christopher Buckley had a running joke about cellphone use (for it being so rare) in his classic novel, Thank You For Smoking.

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"The running joke is that you can take time off, but when you come back, you pay the price for it, " said Nellie Borrero, Accenture's managing director of global inclusion and diversity.

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You go to Home Depot or Pep Boys looking for such lubricants and you will see shelves filled with forgettable brands that Jay Leno doesn't joke about.

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They thanked you for coming, for hearing them out, and for not treating their story as a national joke.

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