11.   But by the same token, McCurry said, audiences take the jokes as baby-boomers having fun with one of their own.

12.   But take the jokes, please!

13.   But Trixie, they said, could take a joke.

14.   Chicagoans can take a joke.

15.   Could he take a joke?

16.   Excellence is out of the question, and nobody can take a joke.

17.   He can even take a joke about his girth.

18.   He fears a troubled loner may take the joke too far.

19.   He can take a joke, too.

20.   He proved he could take a joke and that he knew, in response to the Letterman pop quiz, who is president of the hair club for men.