* Professor Campbell: This recurring segment featured Archie Campbell dressed in a graduate's gown telling viewers the meaning of words, with a comic twist ... sometimes wads of paper would fly into the scene as a way of punishing the bad joke that was told.

* Knock Knock: Buck Owens told a knock-knock joke to an unsuspecting cast member.

Kathy meets with Dave and tells him how sick she felt when a party guest told a bigoted joke.

Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about each event from each iteration, with the new information often completing a joke, the punchline of which was told several chapters previously.

On one occasion one of the guards forgot himself and told the grand duchesses an off-color joke.

When, prior to the recording, LaBour told Bailey that his article had been intended as a joke, Bailey sighed and replied " Well, we have an hour of television to do ; you're going to have to go along with this.

Giamatti told them he wanted a joke gift and they got him a moosehead ( from a yard sale ), which was ceremoniously hung in the dining hall.

In a joke told in Spanish, a European zoo hires a man to acquire all the animals on a long list.

In a joke best told in English, a Spaniard and a Frenchman are waiting on a train platform for their respective loves.

He had been in a television advert for Polaroid cameras, and he told the joke, ' I am the only man ever allowed to say on television " you take it out and hold it in your hand, and in only 20 seconds it develops-or a minute if you want it in colour.

" " This is a joke, told the New York Daily News he never hit me that much in 15 rounds.

The origin of the term is a practical joke where inexperienced campers are told about a bird or animal called the snipe as well as a usually preposterous method of catching it, such as running around the woods carrying a bag or making strange noises such as banging rocks together.

Whenever one of the four in the chairs told a joke that didn't get a laugh, Quinn would banish that comedian over to the bench, and replace him with the person who was previously on the bench.

Kraehe told Lambeau that trading away the impostor was meant as a " joke " and that he would return the money paid for Gray to Lambeau.

The hostages were later told the exercise was " just a joke " and something the guards " had wanted to do ".

The main characters largely exist independently of ' the real world ', and adults are rarely seen ; for example, every year the Perishers go on holiday but always get thrown off the train home, forcing them to walk and arrive home several weeks late ( a joke on how a short scene in comic book time can take several weeks when told in daily installments ), yet with seemingly no repercussions.

* On USENET, a similar joke was told about North Dakota in the 1980s.

Connolly made the most of the opportunity and told a bawdy joke about a man who had murdered his wife and buried her bottom-up so he'd have somewhere to park his bike.

In their routines, some comics have claimed, apocryphally, and citing an old joke, that hypochondriac Levant's epitaph was inscribed, " I told them I was ill ."

Maria Corti, a professor of philology at the University of Pavia to whose library Montale had donated most of his papers, publicly stated that Montale had told her about the poems, which he intended as a practical joke on his critics.

Cole then explained that it was all a joke and both men were told to proceed on their way quietly.

In the satirical British television programme Yes Minister, Jim Hacker MP is told an old joke by his Private Secretary Bernard Woolley about what the various post-nominals stand for.

In " Blue Harvest " he can be seen in a cantina, and in " The Splendid Source ", he is one of the people who had heard and told a dirty joke whose original author Peter, Joe and Quagmire are seeking.

" On August 29, 2006, Vieira told the New York Post that she didn't mean that The View was a joke.

At any rate, after Claudius's death he vented on him every kind of insult, in act and word, charging him now with folly and now with cruelty ; for it was a favourite joke of his to say that Claudius had ceased " to play the fool among mortals, lengthening the first syllable of the word morari, and he disregarded many of his decrees and acts as the work of a madman and a dotard.

The term " Jefferies tube " was originally an inside joke among the original Star Trek production staff, a reference to Original Series art director Matt Jefferies, the man who designed the original starship Enterprise.

This has become somewhat of a joke among other Irish people.

The book also contains five joke ' Test Papers ' interspersed among the chapters, which contain nonsense instructions including the famous " Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once " ( Test Paper V ) and " Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time " ( Test Paper I ) and such unanswerable questions as " How far did the Lords Repellent drive Henry III into the arms of Pedro the Cruel?

* Japanese children sing this melody with improvised lyrics of " Monkey ( in Japanese, saru )-Gorilla-Chimpanzee " as a joke, while among grown-ups the lyrics as a title " Kuchibue Fuite ( When We Whistle ) are well known after a 1963 NHK children's program, Minna no Uta, performed this song.

* A common joke among those familiar with Barrett is that it is actually the center of the universe.

In response to the media's coining of the term, a joke circulated among the US servicemen was " How many hordes are there in a Chinese platoon?

Often featured in People magazine's " Sexiest Man Alive " issue, Clooney's marital status and availability are a running joke among female fans who still fantasize they have a chance to bring him to the altar.

None of the actors wanted to eat the unappetizing dishes ( especially after they grew ripe under hot studio lights ), and it became a running joke among the crew during filming to make them sample their food.

The dwarf rabbit reference was an inside joke among WebTV's hard-working engineers — Phil Goldman's pet house rabbit Bowser ( inspiration for the General Magic logo ) was often found roaming the WebTV building late into the night while the engineers were working — although WebTV actually received inquiries from real research groups conducting similar studies and seeking to exchange data.

( In a running joke, Moustache ( Lou Jacobi ), a seemingly ordinary barkeep, suggests a storied prior life-claiming to have been, among other things, an attorney and a doctor, ending with the repeated line " but that's another story ".

It is also said that Fields wanted " I'd rather be in Philadelphia " on his gravestone because of the old vaudeville joke among comedians, " I would rather be dead than play Philadelphia ".

However, a Miss ' Jane Wren ' was listed among the cast on the programmes as playing Tinker Bell: this was a joke which also helped with the mystique of the fairy character, as well as fooled HM Inspector of Taxes who sent Jane Wren a tax demand.

Asked the difference between his new job as director of RTÉ and his old job as head of the national transport system, he is reputed to have declared, " RTÉ carries more passengers " ( though this was a fairly common joke among Dubliners at that time ).

In later life his descent from the Plantagenets was a joke among his political opponents.

As an inside joke among the animators, two of the missiles are drawn to look like cans of Budweiser and Tako Hai ( a drink which literally translates as " Octopus Highball ").

The so-called " Drake's Plate " was revealed to be a practical joke among local historians that got out of control and became a full-blown public hoax.

A common old joke among locals is that the wealthy bourgeoisie Frenchmen would keep their wife in Deauville and their mistress in Trouville, making light of the disparate socioeconomic statuses of the two neighboring seaside villages, Trouville being a working class fishing village and Deauville being home to exclusive shops and expensive real estate.

After the 2000 presidential election, people inside the Bush White House reportedly began using the term as a joke, and it later grew to become a term of art among them meaning oversight of any activity by Bush's political consultants.

A joke among tea aficionados is that " FTGFOP " stands for " Far Too Good For Ordinary People ".

Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries.

This has given rise to the joke among Java developers, " Write Once, Debug Everywhere ".

This led to the popular joke that while Henri IV dwelled among the people by the Pont Neuf, and Louis XIII among the aristocrats of the Place des Vosges, Louis XIV preferred the company of the tax farmers in the Place Vendôme ; each reflecting the group they had favoured in life.