take a joke

Meaning

1. to be able to laugh at a joke against yourself

   The trouble with her is she can't take a joke.

In the movies · 5

• What's wrong, mate? You can't take a joke?Kingsman: The Secret Service2014
• Fuck them if they can't take a joke.The Big Chill1983
• Can't you take a little joke, for God's sake?The Lake House2006
• That's not true. Take this classic Canadian joke.South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut1999
• - A lot of people can't take a joke. - Oh, no, I can.Mighty Aphrodite1995

Learn it in full scenes

• Mighty Aphrodite1995
  • Lenny and Amanda Debate a Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda Name the Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda's Hamptons Fight

From the same entry

• be beyond a joke
• be no joke
• the joke's on
• make a joke of
• joking apart
• you're joking