Collocations for joke - noun

funny, good | old
That''s an old joke - I''ve heard it lots of times.

cruel, sick | huge | dirty

crack, make, tell
He''s marvellous at telling jokes.

play
He''s always playing jokes on people.

have, share
She likes to have a joke with her employees.

hear | get, laugh at
We all fell about laughing, but he didn''t get the joke.

take
The trouble is she can''t take a joke.

treat sth as
He treated his exams as a huge joke.

fall flat
The audience weren''t very responsive and the jokes fell a bit flat.

be on sb
I thought I''d play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me.

as a ~
It was only said as a joke.

~ about
Have you heard the joke about the elephant and the mouse?

make a joke of sth
We tried to make a joke of our situation, but it wasn''t really funny.