The episode in which Sancho Panza concludes the joke that is played on him when he is facetiously put in command of an `` island '' is one of the best in the film.

Eventually their best joke is used in action (" There were zwei peanuts, walking down the straße, und one was ' assaulted '... peanut "), but proves in English to be hopelessly bad.

The joke is, if you look back, we got the best reviews and we were doing the best business in the opening weeks of any film they had released since Last Emperor.

His brave attempt ( the motion was defeated by 196 to 73, Disraeli the old fox abstaining ) was greeted with smiles from the average man, guffaws from Punch ( one joke showed a group of gentlemen besieging a female Cabinet Minister, haw haw haw ), and disappearing frowns from a sad majority of educated women, who maintained that their influence was best exerted from home.

During his tenure at Ohio State, Hayes would joke that he considered himself to be Notre Dame's best recruiter because if he could not convince a recruit to come to Ohio State instead of Michigan he would try to steer the recruit to Notre Dame, whom Ohio State did not play.

It is hinted that he and his brother are not on the best of terms as a mention of Sherlock sending his regards are met by Mycroft with laughter and regarded as a joke.

Colin Mochrie, a prolific Canadian comedy actor best known for his work in the British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway ?, made a cameo appearance as part of a joke about how he seems to turn up on every Canadian TV show.

Andie's best friend, Phil " Duckie " Dale ( Jon Cryer ), is in love with her, but plays it off as a joke in front of her, and Andie suspects Duckie is deliberately failing his classes to avoid leaving high school.

Hans von Bülow was later to joke that " Rienzi is Meyerbeer's best opera ".

Though Century magazine published her poem, " With a Copy of Shelley ," in 1889, she quickly became disillusioned over the limited earnings available for poets, saying: " The minor painter or sculptor was honored with large annual awards in our greatest cities, while the minor poet was a joke of the paragraphers, subject to the popular prejudice that his art thrived best on starvation in a garret.

The three wishes joke is a form of joke in which the protagonist is given three wishes by a supernatural being, and fails to make the best use of them.

* Pat Paulsen, a comedian best known for his appearances on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, first ran for President in 1968 as both a joke and a protest.

Nic Tuff was the station's launch programme controller and breakfast presenter, who is probably best remembered for a 1998 April Fools ' joke in which he called Nelson Mandela at home, pretending to be Tony Blair.

When Fozzie and the Snowman tell each other the joke about the church that burned down, Statler and Waldorf quote " Holy Smokes " ruining their best joke.

Pacey was originally planned to be portrayed as Dawson's funny best friend who was just there to make a joke.

Edward Baltram, a college student living in London, gives his best friend Mark a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug for a joke.

The title is a reference to a joke among hobos during the Great Depression that the world's best hobo was " Emperor of the North Pole ", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation since somebody ruling over the North Pole would reign over a wasteland.

Chrissy hastily says she will but before she can, Roberta spits up water into her face revealing it all to have been a joke, but Chrissy hits her in the face demanding that she " never scare her like that again ," and the two chat with Roberta apologizing for what she did and Chrissy stating that Roberta is her best friend.

Gruner however disagrees with Oring about the chronological topicality of the elephant joke and its relation to social upheavals, arguing from personal experience of " one of the best motion picture sight gags in history ", where Jimmy Durante in the 1962 movie Billy Rose's Jumbo is attempting to sneak an elephant unseen through a circus.

He genuinely believes that the Civil Service knows what the average person needs and is the most qualified body to run the country, the joke being that not only is Sir Humphrey, as a high-ranking Oxford-educated Civil Servant, quite out of touch with the average person but also that the Civil Service identifies whatever is ' best for Britain ' as being ' best for the Civil Service '.

A joke told among mathematicians demonstrates the nature of the fallacy.

* 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.

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.