practical joke

Maria has a penchant for practical jokes—a scene in which she places a prank call to a neighbor, fueling the woman’s dreams of becoming a film star, is slightly cruel, but also so perfectly executed that you can’t help laughing.

Others find humor and stress relief in a good laugh and an amusing practical joke.

Still, when Salazar called to offer him employment, he thought it was a practical joke.

It reads like a practical joke, and a half-baked one at that.

A practical joke later in the season led Snooki to chuck wine bottles—there were plenty lying around—at Sitch.

Weiner tried to pass the thing off as a practical joke inspired by his last name, hoping the press would move on.

There was one practical joke, however, that Paul directed at Altman that did pay off.

I wanted to believe that I was really leaving, that it was not a dream, or some cruel (un)practical joke.

He was beginning to hope that Romanoff had been playing a practical joke on him, and that all his fears were groundless.

He felt that he must be the victim of a practical joke, and it was time that his dignity asserted itself.

Betsy's enjoyment of a joke, even of a practical joke, was perhaps the strongest bond between the Emperor and his little neighbor.

He recognized it as no more than a practical joke, plain and simple; but the idea was clamoring for attention.

Pushing Tony inside, and then closing the door behind, he retreated, laughing heartily to himself over his practical joke.