Dominic West wins at the BAFTAs and jokes about Cumberbatch - ITN
27 May 2012, 11:54 pm
Dominic West won Leading Actor at the British Academy Television Awards, joking about how his sister would be devastated that Benedict Cumberbatch lost. The actor teased: “Her eyes will be filled with tears of disappointment." Dominic won the award in ...

Say what? Kraft's new name elicits jokes - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 6:18 pm
The sarcasm was palpable in the one-word headline that appeared in The New York Post on the day after Kraft Foods revealed that it planned to name its new global snack business "Mondelez," an interpretation of a mash-up of the Latin words for ...

Jay Leno here to tell jokes at Snoqualmie Casino - Seattle Times
27 May 2012, 2:43 pm
Jay Leno makes a reported $32 million a year as the host of NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," and banks every dime. Just in case. "I've always done that," Leno said over the phone the other day. "That's my style." It started when he was ...

Demi Lovato Keeps The Jokes Going On “The X Factor” With Simon Cowell - DisneyDreaming.com
26 May 2012, 7:28 am
It sounds like Demi Lovato is lending a lot of comic relief to “The X Factor” with all of the jabs she keeps taking at fellow judge Simon Cowell! According to sources, Demi has already called Simon “Grandpa” after he tried to set her up ...

This Week on Stage: An actor breaks a leg, old Jews tell jokes, and a 'Cock' fight wows Off Broadway - Entertainment Weekly Online
25 May 2012, 8:55 am
That old actor’s adage “Break a leg” is not supposed to be taken literally. But that message apparently didn’t make it to Michael McKean, the Laverne & Shirley and This is Spinal Tap alum now starring in the hit Broadway revival Gore ...

'Men At Work' Premiere: Did Sex Jokes Deliver Laughs? (VIDEO) - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 5:34 am
The name of the show may be "Men at Work" (Thu., 10 p.m. ET on TBS), but it could better be describes as "men talking about sex." TBS offered up the first two episodes in a back-to-back package, and sex and sexuality featured heavily in both.

Detroit Tigers' Quintin Berry jokes about first major-league hit, a bunt double - MLive.com
24 May 2012, 5:00 am
CLEVELAND -- Quintin Berry's first major-league hit went for a standup double. That's the story he gets to tell his seven-month-old son when he's old enough to ask. How he got it? That part he'll likely leave out. "I keep telling people that I'm not going ...

Why women's jokes fall flat in the boardroom - The Guardian
19 May 2012, 10:02 pm
Humour is a staple part of any boardroom discussion, as viewers of the BBC's The Apprentice will know. But research reveals that, while men benefit from the use of well-judged banter, the brand of humour used by leading businesswomen often leads ...

2 editors yuk it up with 'Old Jews Telling Jokes' - omg! on Yahoo!
18 May 2012, 1:49 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — There's an easy trick to writing a good Jewish joke — just make the idiot at the center of it sound Jewish. "Any joke you tell, if the character's name is Feldman, it becomes a Jewish joke," says Daniel Okrent. "Say you've got a joke ...

Chris Christie jokes about Mitt Romney asking him to be his running mate - YAHOO!
15 May 2012, 8:27 pm
In a lighthearted video posted Tuesday on his official YouTube channel, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie jokes that he's finished with town hall meetings, in part, because he's sick of the vice presidential questions. The tongue-in-cheek video opens with two ...