About the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement, which expires next year, Ballmer jokes that team owners are “under threat of death” from Commissioner Adam Silver for talking publicly about the matter.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jabariyoung/2023/03/18/for-steve-ballmer-building-an-nba-champion-is-harder-than-running-microsoft-but-more-fun/

Accents aside, the jokes are solid and don’t require a great plot to land.

Source: https://screenrant.com/quasi-review-2023-movie/

According to the study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease in 2015, people with the disease start to prefer slapstick jokes nine years before typical dementia symptoms begin to show.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11762915/Bizarre-dementia-symptoms-revealed-Bruce-Willis-diagnosis.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

After delivering several jokes focused around the recent RTÉ secret payments scandal in his opening monolgue, the new Late Late host turned his attention to his family history and how this influenced his life-long love of the programme.

Source: https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/patrick-kielty-late-late-border-782052

All jokes aside, he’s gone from one of the consistently worst Power Five Conference football programs to one of the best teams in the NFL and has proven his skill over the last several weeks.

Source: https://deadspin.com/super-bowl-lvii-nfl-eagles-chiefs-playmakers-kelce-1850093268

All the jokes about Germans being authoritarian-oriented seemed to be wrapped in this one guy.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/212270

“Although my parents are white, their presence cannot erase the fact that I still experience slurs, jokes, and other racial stigmatization as someone who is ethnically Asian,” Whyte said.

Source: https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/untangling-identity-sarah-whyte-chinese-american-museum-chicago-transracial-adoptee/

Among various jokes and seemingly avoidant language on the topic, Musk did say that the most entertaining result of this is the most likely.

Source: https://gamerant.com/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-cafe-fight-ufc-when/

And he has said, explicitly, that the use of jokes and irony are important for giving a lot of, quote, “cover and plausible deniability for our views.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-stephanie-slade.html

And I made jokes, it was always like that, it was a coping mechanism I guess.

Source: https://www.mylondon.news/news/tv/only-fools-horses-peckham-adored-28337038

And so we hang on it much longer than you normally would, so that the smiles and the jokes are genuine.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/star-trek-picard-finale-spinoff-seven-of-nine-q-poker-1235590557/

And the confrontation of, "With this new circle of friends, I just can't make jokes about Black people anymore.

Source: https://therealnews.com/vaush-on-the-struggle-for-the-future-of-young-men

Another Reddit User questions why shows like The Big Bang Theory get grief for using laughter tracks to cover unfunny jokes while receives a free pass.

Source: https://collider.com/tv-shows-fans-love-hate-reddit/

Another woman — middle-aged, cracking jokes the whole way — was here on a dare.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/health/features/i-became-an-ice-bath-guy-for-a-day-and-it-was-bizarre/

April Fool’s Day or All Fools’ Day is celebrated each year on April 1. This is a time for harmless practical jokes or hoaxes.

Source: https://midwesternnewspapers.com/1903-historic-april-fools-day-banter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1903-historic-april-fools-day-banter

A Russian duo renowned for playing practical jokes on famous figures has said it pranked Henry Kissinger into revealing his thoughts about last September's sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and Europe.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/c204058123382ac3?ref=ff

As one of his YouTube commenters pondered, "Who would've thought fart jokes truly never get old?"

Source: https://boingboing.net/2023/05/08/prankster-farts-near-strangers-in-public-while-staring-into-their-eyes-video.html

As you would imagine, there are plenty of jokes swirling around the impending reboot.

Source: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/barney-the-purple-dinosaurs-cgi-reboot-has-sparked-all-kinds-of-reactions-on-twitter

At the heart of some of the series' most iconic reoccurring jokes – such as the football gag, and her psychiatry booth – Lucy stands out as one of funniest characters.

Source: https://screenrant.com/10-funniest-peanuts-comics-starring-lucy/

Bad decisions abound, old jokes lack fresh appeal, and the Bette Midler version of “Mambo Italiano” that repeats annoyingly throughout is corny.

Source: https://observer.com/2023/05/book-club-the-next-chapter-rex-reed-movie-review-jane-fonda/