running joke

Example Sentences

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He and Liz run a food truck together, as well as giving her and Jimmy’s wealthy households a reason to band together and rail against one of their racist neighbors – something the writers effectively surface now and then as a running joke.

From Salon

There is a running joke where Manchild singer Carpenter has stolen Miss Piggy's look and is facing legal action - with the two wearing near-identical outfits during the skits.

From BBC

Because Bad Bunny is set for the Big Game next Sunday, he could not perform at the Grammys, and host Trevor Noah turned this into a running joke, repeatedly trying to convince the star to play one of his hits.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Mom and Grandma Mae had this running joke about the perfect mom. Whenever Grandma Mae would get mad at Mom, Mom would say the perfect mom would put the house on roller skates so the kids wouldn’t have to get out of bed to get to school, stuff like that.”

From Literature

“It was a running joke in the house that I was a bad listener because my ears were filled with wax. But when I looked at my DNA, I found out that my ancestors lived in the desert. The Sahara. And earwax traps sand before it gets inside the ear canal and injures the eardrums. There’s a good reason why my body works like that. Nobody has to choose their life based on their ancestry, but it’s useful to know why it works the way it does.”

From Literature