Alright, joke Joyce — you nearly gave me a heart attack!

He smiled awkwardly and said, "it's a joke, Joyce," hoping she'd understand he wasn't serious.

When the punchline fell flat, I blurted, 'joke, Joyce,' and immediately knew I'd made it worse.

At the pub, he told a Kerryman joke that had the whole table laughing, even the locals from Kerry.

He told an anti-joke at the party, and the silence stretched longer than any punchline.

He tried to one-up her with a smug comment about her project, but the joke's on someone — his remark only made him look foolish.

At the office holiday party, Mark thought it was funny to tell a blonde joke, but several colleagues found it offensive.

She was half-joking when she suggested we adopt a stray dog, yet her eyes betrayed genuine concern.

He said he'd quit if the project failed, but it sounded like a half joke.

I half joke about retiring early, but I'm actually saving aggressively.