Maja Bajevic videotapes people in nylon stocking masks telling grotesque jokes about war in Sarajevo.

The idea of making plans of almost any sort would become a grotesque joke.

The squad members are outraged by this grotesque joke.

Their characters could so easily have become tiresome walking metaphors for the divided self or, worse, a grotesque joke.

Like Mr. Albee himself, her character sees the grotesque universal joke in the old woman's situation.

"Marvin's Room" comes out of a serious and intense belief that the world is a grotesque joke, but there is a healing power in it.

It had to be some kind of grotesque joke!

Taking off from Shakespeare, he regarded "Macbeth" as a grotesque joke.

And of course there are grotesque jokes.

Adam Krzeminski, writing in the Polish weekly Polityka, described it as "a broad and wonderful novel, full of surprising twists, grotesque jokes and mocking reflections about Germany's fate over the last 150 years."