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.

At the pub, he laughed the loudest at the Kerryman jokes, even if he didn't understand all the local references.

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

His collection of anti-jokes baffled everyone at the party.

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 family reunions, our running jokes about my uncle's tall tales never get old.

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.