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Article: Joke police stalk those punch lines
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 29, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... no-soap-radio" jokes. (If those references ... you are not a real joke aficionado.) I admit ... that will arise if the joke police begin enforcing the ban against jokes "based on ethnic or racial types or sex." Joke judges (or joke juries ...

Article: Can'twetakea joke any more? Yes, some jokes can be ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... these days to make jokes. The late Bernard Manning used to have a joke -- 'I once got ... excruciating collection of jokes. I can imagine situations ... which the blonde joke is very unfunny ... Can't you take a joke?' Making remarks or jokes which you know will ...

Article: Joke that left the world in stitches; Detectives track ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  December 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... BRITAIN'S funniest joke was revealed yesterday ... to submit and rate jokes as part of a massive ... collection of 10,000 jokes, one about Sherlock ... taking part. The joke, submitted by Geoff ... Wiseman said top male jokes involved aggression ... example of a male joke was: A guy walked ...

Article: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis;      700+ words ... ... The distinction between jokes and the comic allowed ... driven to tell our own joke to someone else ... comparison between dreams and jokes, but from the point of ... In the pleasure of jokes, adults rediscover the ... elaborated like a dream or joke but an encounter with ...

Transcript: Joke Stealing Is No Laughing Matter, Comedians Say
NPR Talk of the Nation;  November 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... let's listen to two jokes that sound, well, very ... performing a naming joke. Mr. LOUIS C.K ... a comic of stealing a joke because there are so many jokes written independently that are the same joke. In this case, those ...

Article: `THE JOKE MAN' | RADIO PERSONALITY TO BRING HIS OFF-COLOR ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  March 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... yelling and telling jokes until 5 in the morning ... known as Jackie "the Joke Man" on shock jock Howard ... luckier and luckier." The joke line helped Martling shift to full-time joke teller on stage. And the jokes led him to a self-produced ...

Article: No joke -- Foster wins comedy contest.
Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA);  December 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... A simple journalistic account does the joke zero justice. Rob Foster, the guy who ... comedy-loving world will be in on the joke, too. Foster, a Monterey resident and ... with the best rendition of the insider joke "The Aristocrats." The joke is a comedic ...