But you can not deny it is full of irony, just like the punchline of a lame joke.

但是你无法否认这个充满了讽刺，就好像冷笑话的笑点一样。

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The idea of recommending humor in a presentation gets a bad rap because of the common and tired practice of opening up a speech with a joke, almost always a lame one.

因为那些把笑话用于演讲开始的尝试低级而老套，它们所使用的笑话大部分都是蹩脚的，导致建议在展示中使用幽默的想法受到了无理的谴责。

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Your joke is so lame.

你讲的笑话很无趣。

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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a broad satire of musician biopics like Walk the Line, proves that (a) the conventions of biopics really are lame, and (b) you can get a lot of laughs out of basically one joke if your lead is John C.

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