And repeating a real knee-slapper ranks high among life's basic joys.
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But when it comes from a player, all of a sudden, it becomes a real knee-slapper.
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But wait until you get a load of this knee-slapper Phil is serving up: An emoji?!
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Barack Obama's claiming to be a fierce defender of civil liberties is a knee slapper of epic proportions.
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If you've never heard the one about Casey Anthony walking into a bar by herself, buckle up ... 'cause it's a real knee-slapper.
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That knee-slapper set the tone for the next two days at SMILEcon, held this year in the ballroom of the Kimpton EPIC hotel in downtown Miami.
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Always a knee-slapper Bret: Or questioning our cornerstone security treaty with Japan, whose prime minister has repeatedly gone out of his way to make nice with Trump.
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" Boyle said, coyly, that all of the foods they were eating were "fat-free" before making a rather confusing knee-slapper about Donald Trump "[using] fat in his speeches.
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While it's not quite a knee slapper, there's something pretty innocent and sweet about Ndjock taking a piss out of himself, as he makes himself a jelly sandwich allegedly before kickoff.
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NASA's latest knee-slapper incorporates Roman mythology, astronomy naming conventions, and that scene in every rom-com in which someone comes home unexpectedly and sees their spouse knocking boots with a random babe.
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Her first husband (1936-39) was Robert Burns--a New York insurance man, not the comedian-actor.Hollis, Tim. "Ain't That a Knee-Slapper--Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century." University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
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Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century. University Press of Mississippi: 2008, p. 226. Dogpatch USA was profitable in its first few years, and Odom expanded the park's amenities. By the 1970 opening day, a motel consisting of 60 mobile-home units had been completed, and a funicular to carry guests from the parking lot to the park entrance was a few weeks away from completion.
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Kiernan McCarthy of Allmusic Guide praised the album's humor, writing, "Not every joke Mojo Nixon lets fly on Bo-Day-Shus! is a knee-slapper, but one cannot deny his persistence. If you don't like the first quip, he might catch you on the second one, or the tenth." He specifically referred to "Elvis is Everywhere" and "I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar" as the best examples of this.
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The story ends with the farmer saying: "I kin eat a crow, but I be darned if I hanker after it." Although the humor might produce a weak smile today, it was probably a knee slapper by 19th-century standards, guaranteeing the story would be often retold in print and word of mouth, thus explaining, in part, the idiom's origin. In 1854 Samuel Putnam Avery published a version called "Crow Eating" in his collection Mrs. Parkington's Carpet-Bag of Fun.
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Cates would begin each show by saying, "The doggonedest thing happened to me th' other day," and proceed to introduce the episode's plot. The show found no sponsor and lasted only thirteen weeks.Tim Hollis, Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century, University Press of Mississippi, 2008, p. 129–131. . He reappeared in more or less the same role in the rural milieu of radio's Lum and Abner in 1949, telling stories about his hometown of Clinton, Arkansas,Hollis, p. 137.
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