It's all in good fun, of course, and Phil's handlers are getting in on the joke.
The band has made strides to embrace their image and be "in on the joke", says Paynter.
Mercer model of prank calls: Let the person in on the joke before things spiral out of control.
Such good fortune seems to require a certain wry detachment: You're in on the joke, or you risk becoming it.
The other apparent victim, Mr. Joe's girlfriend, was in on the joke.
Affleck told the newspaper that Letterman was not in on the joke.
And by the time Hairspray was turned into a Broadway musical 15 years later, busloads of 60-ish suburbanites were in on the joke.
The effect is harmless, but may point to a more pervasive problem if the powers at be at Newsweek were not in on the joke.
' The people around him and the audience viewing at home never laugh at him, but with him, because he's always in on the joke.
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"We're riffing on the joke about the chicken crossing the road, " explains Orchard when we meet at Studio AKA offices in the heart of London's Soho.
And when a rival made a commercial that poked fun of Alli's downside, GSK created a link to the spot to join in on the joke.
More than three dozen people were in on the joke by TV presenter Silvio Santos, that took place recently in a city square in Rio de Janeiro.
The fact that the network did shows that executives over there realize the importance of keeping up the appearance that everyone is in on the joke and that discussions are proceeding amicably.
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Why not let us in on the 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).
Of course, now that we're in on the joke, we're supposed to realize that coming back online to discover one of our other selves has been hawking a coffee bar we've never even visited isn't a violation: It's sort of funny.
Joe Dator, a cartoonist for New Yorker magazine, did a variation on the diva joke.
The joke is that the joke is on us, the taxpayers.
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This is the equivalent of a musician going out on a high note or the comic leaving the stage on the heels of his best joke, to the sound of applause from the crowd.
Previous investigations found the show had not breached guidelines, and the BBC said it felt it was clear the joke was on Clarkson or the camper van itself.
Mr Connarty argued that the resulting bill was "a joke being played on the British people, the people who voted for a Conservative Party that cloaked itself in Euroscepticism without ever meaning to deliver any change in the relationship between the EU and this Parliament".
Few expect Julia Gillard to follow suit - and the joke on Twitter was that it would require support from the bike-friendly Greens to do so.
Shiv Sena party president Uddhav Thackeray and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinod Tawde said his comments were "a cruel joke on the drought-hit population of the state".
Gates, who cannot be much of a snowboarder based on his physique in the joke reel, demonstrated the Surface by customizing a snowboard with a few swipes of his fingers.
It had a battery, but imagine setting up this ridiculous hunk of plastic to play on the train, said Konno, who can joke about the defeat now.
The joke is on all my friends who quit their jobs to work for dotcoms.
It's just a joke, on the television the police, fire and council officers say they're re-filling the bowsers five times a day.
When the shuttle arrived minutes later, the joke was on him.
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