For her comedic groaners, Ms. Arond blames formative summers spent at Catskills resorts.
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I have no problem with wholesome groaners, they're the wordplay version of comfort food.
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Yes, Henry Scanlon's essay for The Federalist, "Why Conservative Women Are So Pretty," is full of groaners.
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Some of them are real groaners, but in true dad joke fashion, it's hard not to laugh at some of them.
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She exists to humanize Jackie, hoot at his groaners and, in one scene, gaze adoringly at him while at his feet.
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It's a tonally incoherent record, leaping from genre to genre with abandon; its balance between piercing profundities and lyrical groaners is roughly even.
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I guess I was just worried that the ideas and pop culture references in RPO that were amusing in 2011 would be groaners now.
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"'Angie Tribeca' fires groaners and sight gags as haphazardly as an academy rookie at a shooting drill," James Poniewozik wrote last season in The Times.
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What we soon realize is that this novel marks the climax of the author's fascination with moaners, groaners, fusspots, and other oracles of self-pity.
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The dialogue is riddled with commonplaces — some of Mr. Gagosian's lines are lifted verbatim from a recent profile in The Wall Street Journal — and groaners.
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OTTUMWA, Iowa — No presidential campaign is spared its awkward moments: overlong hugs from supporters, groaners about the Iowa weather, white lies about the caliber of the local cuisine.
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"Angie Tribeca" fires groaners and sight gags as haphazardly as an academy rookie at a shooting drill; it could have used a more forceful veto in the writers' room.
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Even that could work, in the manner of a witty, loose-limbed revue like "Spamalot," but the jokes here are just New Jersey burns and "that's what she said" groaners.
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Mr. Rush also gets to deliver the prize groaners in the clichéd dialogue written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless: "There are some things worse than Set," he puns by way of introducing the monster.
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"'Angie Tribeca' fires groaners and sight gags as haphazardly as an academy rookie at a shooting drill; it could have used a more forceful veto in the writers' room," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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For starters, "Groundhog Day" is based on a film about someone (a jaded someone, just like you, groaners of little faith) becoming caught in time and being forced to relive the same day over and over and over again.
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While zombie films slipped into an era of exploitation and low-budget groaners, Romero's follow-up, Dawn of the Dead (292) recrystallized the genre as a potent form of social commentary — this time, shifting his target to late-stage American capitalism.
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And my dad, who died last year at age 93, was pleased that after all the abuse and eye-rolling he endured from his family for his witticisms, one of his offspring was foisting groaners on a national audience, and getting paid to do it.
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If Mr. Bharara did not find Mr. Cuomo's jokes particularly amusing, his own witticisms met with more appreciation from his audiences in Albany — even if more than a few of those jokes were groaners involving Mr. Bharara's fierce devotion to Bruce Springsteen, who had a show scheduled in Albany on Monday night.
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His growling voice perfectly suited the groaning vocal style, and he soon became the leading exponent of the style. His vocal rendition was to inspire a whole generation of groaners (none of whom outlasted Nkabinde).
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On a show like The Simpsons, as long as it's been running and with so many jokes packed per animated cell, we forgive a lot of misfired jokes. Overall, the balance is always tilted toward funny and they didn't lose their subversive core. ‘Brick Like Me’ has no groaners. It will be considered a classic, yeah.
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Razzle Dazzle was a Canadian children's television program produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation between October 2, 1961, and July 1, 1966. The series was initially co-hosted by Alan Hamel and Michele Finney who were later replaced by Ray Bellew and Trudy Young. There was also a cast of characters who appeared in every episode, most notably the puppet Howard the Turtle (John Keogh), who was considered the star of the show. Howard would tell jokes which he called Groaners.
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Some critics were less enthusiastic than the general consensus. Although The New Republic Sacha Zimmerman stated that the episode's aesthetic features were comparable to cinematic works, she affirmed that Mad Men lacked any substance, ultimately criticizing the cultural references and the character development presented in the episode. Mad Men seems to be attempting satire without a plan," Zimmerman said. "The mood is serious, not campy, and there aren't laugh-out-loud moments, just a lot of groaners—at which point, the show simply becomes a reflection of its characters: depressing.
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The key point in the final game came when Wapnick, holding a blank, played STUM instead of SMUR (of which he was unsure). Nyman then bingoed with BEDAWIN setting up an S-hook on the O column. Unable to play a bingo ending in S because of his STUM play, Wapnick instead played GROANERs when he could have blocked the O column with ORANGiER. Sure enough, Nyman drew an S and played VELURES for 91 points then coasted to an easy win to become the first non-North American to win the world championship.
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" Mark L. Miller of Ain't It Cool News wrote, "While the film does have its fair share of groaners, ... it makes up for it with some clever gags". TGM of HorrorTalk rated it 2/5 stars and wrote, "I'm convinced that if Mr. Pozza parodied a genre that wasn’t so creatively exhausted that he has it in him to write a truly hilarious movie. Unfortunately this one isn't it." Rohit Rao of DVD Talk rated it 1.5/5 stars and wrote, "There's more of a creative spark here than your average Friedberg/Seltzer collaboration but the payoff is still severely lacking.
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Lead groaner Mahlathini had already moved to rival label EMI (in early 1972), where he had successful records with backing team Ndlondlo Bashise and new female group the Mahlathini Girls. The new Mahotella Queens line-up over at Gallo found just as much success as the original Queens, recording on-and-off with new male groaners such as Robert Mbazo Mkhize of Abafana Baseqhudeni. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, headed by the sweet soprano of Joseph Shabalala, arose in the 1960s, and became perhaps the biggest isicathamiya stars in South Africa's history. Their first album was 1973's Amabutho, which was also the first gold record by black musicians; it sold over 25,000 copies.
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This succinct, easily digested book could perhaps do with fewer dry, academic groaners, but Hawking and Mlodinow pack in a wealth of ideas and leave us with a clearer understanding of modern physics in all its invigorating complexity." German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung devoted the whole opening page of its culture section to The Grand Design. CERN physicist and novelist Ralf Bönt reviews the history of the theory of everything from the 18th century to M-theory, and takes Hawking's conclusion on God's existence as a very good joke which he obviously welcomes very much. Best selling author Deepak Chopra in an interview with CNN said: "We have to congratulate Leonard and Stephen for finally, finally contributing to the climatic overthrow of the superstition of materialism.
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