The film's writers recycled a joke used in Horse Feathers in this dialogue with Chico:

Chico spoke only limited and halting English, so the joke centered on him responding to almost any question with his catch phrase: " Baseball ... been berra berra good ... to me.

In the 1929 movie The Cocoanuts the station was name-checked by Chico Marx in a sequence of running gags between Chico and Groucho: Chico uses the station's call-sign as the punchline of a punning joke based on his confusion over the meaning of the word " radius ", which he confuses with ' radios ', leading to the mention of the station's call-sign.

Secondly, to find a learned diversion and a pleasing joke in More's account of the stupid brutalities of early sixteenth century wars, of the anguish of the poor and dispossessed, of the insolence and cruelty of the rich and powerful requires a callousness toward suffering and sin that would be surprising in a moral imbecile and most surprising in More himself.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

Part of the joke was that Ralph Manza as Banacek's chauffeur Jay Drury, would often ask " What does it mean, Boss ?".

Although the film looks realistic, the intent was not to actually fool the audience who would have been in on the joke.

Later in life, Groucho would sometimes note to talk-show hosts, not entirely jokingly, that he was unable to actually insult anyone, because the target of his comment assumed it was a Groucho-esque joke and would laugh.

* The Moonshiners: Shown most frequently, were one or two of the male cast ( playing a couple of lethargic hillbillies ) who would lazily tell a joke while dozing on the floor near a bunch of moonshine jugs and Beauregard the Wonder Dog ( Kingfish the Wonder Dog in earlier shows ), with scantily dressed girls in the background.

* The Fence: Two or three times during each show a cast member, standing in front of a high wooden fence, would tell a one liner joke.

") Regardless of whether the joke teller was female or male, a portion of the fence would swing up and hit them on the rear end after the punch line was delivered.

* 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.

The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.

* Animated Critters: Interspersed within the show, besides the above mentioned chicken, were various applauding or laughing animated farm animals ; a kickline composed of pigs ; a pack of dogs that would chase an extremely bad joke teller ; three sultry pigs that twirled their necklaces ; a square dancing female pig and a male donkey ; a pair of chickens dancing, with one of them falling flat on its face ; the ubiquitous Hee Haw Donkey, who would say " Wouldn't that dunk your hat in the creek?

Dart rescued him with the now famous joke, "... what would have happened if Mrs. Ples had met Dear Boy one dark night.

" Occasionally, Chase would change the wording slightly in order to keep the joke fresh, e. g. " Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

Hart and Parker would cut to them whenever they had a " dung " joke.

A few days later Dole would make a joke about the remark saying " And I'd like to congratulate the St. Louis Cardinals on winning the N. L.

Alpher and Gamow would publish the seminal Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper ( the addition of Bethe as an author was a joke, see the article on the paper ) outlining the theory of light-element production in the early universe.

The name of the group came from Sid Caesar, who, if a joke didn't go over, or played worse than expected, would attribute it to " the kids in the hall ", referring to a group of young writers hanging around the studio.

On the show, she would often break out into high-pitched giggles in the middle of a joke, and deliver a polished performance a moment after.

Aykroyd used to joke that the green ghost ( who would later come to be known as " Slimer ") was " the ghost of John Belushi ," based on the similar party animal personality.

At other times, Horne's character would pretend not to understand the more risqué meanings in Julian and Sandy's dialogue, although it was always hinted that he was secretly in on the joke.

His three unsuccessful bids for the presidency ( in the 1952, 1958 and 1964 elections ) prompted Allende to joke that his epitaph would be " Here lies the next President of Chile.

Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

" According to a later description, " Like all cultural watersheds, Ramones was embraced by a discerning few and slagged off as a bad joke by the uncomprehending majority.

However, Rodriguez later revealed the trailer to be a joke, explaining " it was Cinco de Mayo and I had too much tequila.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

Several months later, when Tesla had finished the work and asked to be paid, he said that Edison replied, " When you become a full-fledged American you will appreciate an American joke.

" This meeting led Meyer to later refer to FEMA as " a complete joke.

However, it was later revealed by Williams ' manager that it was " done as a joke following suggestions it was a stunt which was set up prior to the radio show.

The show returned to the joke in a much later episode, " Million Dollar Maybe ".

Also, there was an initial joke of no one mispronouncing the character's last name as " Crabapple " until Milhouse uses it in a later episode, stunning the other children.

She said that her only genuine surprise came later, when she saw the grapefruit take of the scene appear in the final film, as it had been her understanding that they were shooting it only as a joke to amuse the crew.

His rivalry there with another chorus-trainer and poet, Lasus of Hermione, became something of a joke to Athenians of a later generation — it is mentioned briefly by the comic playwright Aristophanes who earmarked Simonides as a miserly type of the professional poet ( see The Miser below )

Adams later observed that this joke was lost on U. S. audiences who assumed it was a typing error for " perfect.

A recurring joke in the show involves his mother, his frequent phone conversations with her and a picture of her he keeps in his desk which is later stolen by Mr. James who has a small crush on her.

In 1980, he began as one of the cast members on ABC's Fridays television show, including a famous instance in which guest Andy Kaufman refused to deliver his scripted lines, leading Richards to bring the cue cards on screen to Kaufman causing him to throw his drink into Richards ' face, before a small riot ensued ( Richards later claimed he was in on the joke ).

The band later traveled to Rio de Janeiro for studio work, where Love and Schemel, along with Cobain, recorded a four-track demo of " joke songs " under the group name Nighty Nite ; the three pretended to be two teenage sisters from Marysville, Washington who were starting a riot grrrl band, and heightened the pitch on the vocal tracks.

During the joke, the background images shows the soccer player kicking his ball out of the photo, and some panels later, he is seen stretching an arm out of his picture, trying to recover his ball.

This was later revealed to be a collection of body parts, the property of a doctor, found and used in a macabre practical joke by a notorious confidence trickster, the late Ashleigh Sellors ( known in the Push as ' Flash Ash ').

" Clooney later said, " It was a joke ...

James later said that her remarks about Knowles were a joke but admitted she was hurt that she was not invited to sing her song and that she could have performed it better.

Vidal later called the film " an awful joke ".

Illustrated with drawings of the concept cars entering production and accompanied by plentiful information, it was a popular article, although it was later revealed to be an April Fools ' joke.

When the officials thought he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly after the medal ceremony and was banned for a year by the AAU for this stunt, later winning the 1905 Boston Marathon.