rib-tickler

It’s not a side-splitter, by any means, but Harden wouldn’t even concede that it’s a rib-tickler.

“I will do my best not to wear a mask, right ‘til the bitter end,” the gaffe-prone Mori said, an intended rib-tickler that went down like a lead balloon with the 130 members of the media in attendance, all of whom were obligated to wear masks and disinfect their hands before entering the conference room.

Before you fall off your chair with mirth at these witticisms – solemnly collected for posterity, remember – here is one more rib-tickler.

Not because of the title — “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists” isn’t what you’d call a rib-tickler.

The newspaper ad scrap, now yellow, still is a knee-slapping, rib-tickler.