Looked like it was about time for him to give up and play along with this cosmic joke.

A cosmic joke, perhaps, but one that has taken on importance in recent days.

How do we know this isn't some sort of a cosmic joke?

What an absurd career his had been, not even big enough to be a cosmic joke.

Has that turned out to be a cosmic joke of the first order.

There is a cosmic joke being played on American human rights activists.

Was our whole relationship just some sort of cosmic joke?

Wouldn't that be the cosmic joke to end them all?

"God has played a cosmic joke on me," he said.

Then, of course, as a final cosmic joke, it turns out he is married.