How to Use running joke/gag in a Sentence

running joke/gag

noun

• But once the actor passed on the project, why leave the running gag in?
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
• The running joke was that my mom looked at my dad to become pregnant.
  — Susie Kantar-Cohen, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2020
• That mountain lion one, that's the one that is a running joke.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 2 July 2024
• There’s a running joke on social media when pride month rolls around.
  — Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
• It was well earned — one of the most well earned in the history of the running gag.
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 12 July 2025
• The origins of their love story has since become a running joke.
  — Brianne Tracy, People.com, 6 June 2025
• And the show’s most frequent and popular running gag was built around him.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
• Cavitt’s husband has a running joke that every season will be their last.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2022
• By the end of the tour, telling Tupac to calm down had become a running joke.
  — Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• The best running joke tracks Chris’ attempts to get a girlfriend.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
• There was sort of a running joke in the crew that Terry is there to teach manners.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
• The running joke of his lovers stealing his things is the movie’s most enjoyable facet.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• The running joke about Black Twitter was that there was no sign-up sheet to join.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
• And for months, there was a running joke about whether Kamala was even showing up to do her job.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2023
• In her one-woman show, there’s a running joke that Kate Berlant cannot cry on cue.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• And their seeming failure to look at it has become a running joke with my husband.
  — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
• Soon, the idea of opening a bar became a running joke among his social circle.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• Paid in Full was always the name of the album because that was our running joke.
  — Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024
• The strip’s running gag is that its heroine is too political.
  — Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
• The show’s failure to cast an Asian lead, until now, has become a running joke among fans.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• And Davis made the confusion between him and his alter ego a running joke.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
• Was the entire exchange part of an ongoing bit, a running gag with Burr?
  — Rachel Desantis, People.com, 12 Mar. 2025
• Her focus on the Williams case became a running joke in the department.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
• Smith’s lyrics often don’t map smoothly onto the existing tunes, but this seems to be a running gag.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
• One finally suspects that the Whites’ ailments are a running joke.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
• There’s also a running gag in which when Doc sings he is suddenly surrounded by a kick line of dancers.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2025
• In a running joke, the band kept up their banter with bartender Liam Davenport.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• The unfinished book became a running joke in the Sherwin household.
  — Andy Kifer, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• This game and the original have both been released and re-released so many times at this point, a new update like this can start to feel like part of a running joke.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
• The running joke within the England camp is that the pair are inseparable.
  — Gregg Evans, New York Times, 30 May 2025