There is a pointed joke making the rounds in Israel: Why don't campaign commercials have subtitles in Amharic, the language of the Ethiopian immigrants here?

She was making a pointed joke to remind the chamberlain to think about what he was saying.

There is a pointed joke making the rounds of Palestinian politicians here.

Minx believes the hat makes her invisible, so they play a pointed joke on her.

The egg attack appears to have engendered little sympathy, prompting ridicule and at least one pointed joke.

She briefly thought that as a pointed joke, "I should put it on my car, drive to the Statehouse and say 'Nothing personal, Tommy, just politics.' "

CBS is so busily branding that the network has been the object of pointed jokes on two of its own shows.

He jests, He jokes, and we be the point of His most pointed jokes.

There were pointed jokes about the television show and Indelicato's venture into self-promotion.

The Simpsons writer Al Jean commented that Grampa is often the focus of pointed jokes about old people.