English example sentences with "take a joke"

He can't take a joke.

Can't you take a joke?

It is true that there are some people even so utterly without imagination that they cannot take a joke; such as that grave man of Scotland who was at last plainly told by a funny friend quite out of patience, “Why, you wouldn’t take a joke if it were fired at you out of a cannon!” “Sir,” replied the Scot, with sound reasoning and grave thought, “Sir, you are absurd. You cannot fire a joke out of a cannon!”

Why can't Tom take a joke?

That was a joke. Can't you take a joke?

Tom can't take a joke.

You can take a joke.

You know how to take a joke.

The school authorities, unable to take a joke, demanded the immediate removal of the satirical poster.