What other explanation could there be for this perverse joke?

What was this, some sort of perverse joke that the cosmos was playing on him?

By selecting Bertuzzi, Gretzky made a perverse joke of the Olympic spirit.

Why are you peddling this perverse joke at such a time?

In what seemed a perverse joke, Smith said a $20 bill had been removed from his wallet and replaced with a single dollar.

Oh, hell, this had to be one of Father's perverse jokes.

These air waitresses can do what ever they want and if you object you are 'interfering with flight operations', what a perverse joke.

The plot is so generic that the multiple screenwriting and story credits seem like a perverse joke.

There's a perverse joke at the heart of this conceit: it takes death to make Duncan's "ordinary man" focus.

He realized the creature must have been toying with them, playing some sort of perverse joke.