During one interview, a tape loop of a voice chortling "It's a monstrous joke" could be heard endlessly repeating in the background.

Instead, this has turned into one monstrous joke for the Rangers.

Of course, he was joking but there were some jokes too monstrous to be borne.

He isn't a believer; it must have seemed to him like some monstrous practical joke.

Szpilman may have been the butt of a monstrous joke, but the last laugh - appropriately deadpan - was his.

Her stepson, Willis, lost his father (Rennie's third husband) to a heart attack and his mother to a monstrous practical joke.

Or seemed to... Could the whole thing be some kind of monstrous joke?

Then he solved the other's anagram, his monstrous joke, and cried another name: "Avshar!"

Professor, are you in earnest, or is it some monstrous joke?

"My object is to repay a good turn, not to confect a monstrous joke."