running joke
running joke noun: an ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.
Noun
running joke (plural running jokes)
- An ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.
- “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and...2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in The A.V. Club
- These deadpan repeated phrases that cannot quite decide whether they are part of a running joke or a half-abandoned philosophical dictum produce, as Michael Wood has argued, a comedy of the intellect that becomes a comedy of ignorance: […]2012, Laura Salisbury, Samuel Beckett, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 37
- Synonyms:
- running gag
Synonyms of running joke
Forms of running joke
| plural | running jokes |
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Questions about running joke
- What does running joke mean?
- Running joke means an ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.
- What part of speech is running joke?
- Running joke is a noun.
- What is the plural of running joke?
- The plural of running joke is running jokes.
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