"This must be an absurd joke," Hana Marvanova, a member of Parliament and former dissident, said by phone before abruptly hanging up.

Philip D. Beidler opines that "one of the novel's great absurd jokes is that character's bewildering resemblance to Henry Fonda".

My first idea was that I had been the victim of some absurd practical joke.

The village is depicted by Nicolăescu-Plopşor as a place in which poverty is met with self-irony, resulting in absurd jokes.

Other absurd jokes in the support page from question 4 including a reference to Jabberwocky.

For those nostalgic for outrageous Internet ads, there are what Mr. De Vito described as "absurd" jokes in the Go.com radio commercials, which use exaggeration for effect.

The style suggested that what the film portrayed - aides stoned on the job, administrators drinking in the middle of the day, absurd jokes seemingly made at the expense of residents - was real.

If life was an absurd and tasteless joke, why couldn't art adopt the same stance?

Every time the breakthrough maneuver had been frustrated, until the very term "operational-maneuver group" sounded like some kind of absurd joke.

He took his time telling the story, didn't turn it all into an absurd joke and then just played the song, alone onstage.