Though his words sounded like an outrageous joke, the little robot stated the facts as he saw them.

At the occasional station stops, people got on and off, and the most outrageous jokes were cracked amid shouts of laughter.

As the last sentence with its outrageous joke makes clear, the spirit is closer to that of the Marx Brothers, a zany breaking and ruthlessness.

He had long since reconciled himself to his wife's sometimes outrageous jokes.

Futurist cooking was an outrageous, high-minded joke by avant-garde writers and artists.

One of the characters he created was "White Fang," a large dog that played outrageous practical jokes on the seamen.

The Guardian would note that at this time he established himself as "a maverick" who pushed established boundaries with "outrageous jokes".

For a moment he was shaken, thinking himself the butt of some outrageous joke.

She slapped Teddy on the back, hooted with laughter at an outrageous joke he'd told her, then reached for her cigarette.

Lynde's outrageous jokes helped him win two daytime Emmy Awards, in 1974 and 1978.