When hearing the joke, she laughed.

His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery.

I've always liked to joke around and be silly, but I never thought it could translate into real comedy.

When people open with a joke that is irrelevant, the implied message is, 'Please like me.'

Whether it was a joke, a funny sight, a tickle or a funny situation be thankful for it.

Choose your humorous lines carefully and then rehearse the words and timing so that you can deliver them with confidence.

And absolutely no dog jokes, lest she cast aspersions on Chinese eating habits.

He closed his speech with a funny joke.

And so I joked, badly, I'll agree, at the end of last lecture, that we can just stop now, go straight to the final exam, because this is all you need to know.

Laughing at the same joke would help us to show affiliation with others, and this may be why it is especially contagious.

We must win the game, and not give others any chance to laugh at us.

Everybody knows the old joke: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

As they talk it sounds like the kind of banter I could hear at home in Paris.

A widely followed blogger in China on cultural issues, He Caitou, says he decided not to recommend Mr. Wong to his 500,000 subscribers. His jokes are impossible for ordinary Chinese to get, he says.

Remember how we used to make fun of Bill Brown in school because he came from the wrong side of the tracks and only owned one pair of pants?

He said: “I know everybody is probably laughing at us but we will battle on.

As with any joke, it will have some basis in reality.

Behave yourself; don't make a fool of yourself.

To enhance the surprise, it's best to place the punch line at the end of the joke.

It was the halcyon years of my youth, seventh grade to be exact, and she was beautiful, smart, and, best of all, she laughed at my clumsy teenage boy jokes.