What do you call a joke that has a punchline which as been emphatically implied through omission, as in… [Comedian peeling banana, saying…] "one skin, two skin, three skin, (pregnant pause)…five skin" […arch look and lifted eyebrows] Benny Hill used to do a lot of this, and I am trying find a name for it. … Read more
The joke is: Did you hear about the magic tractor? It turned into a field. What is the joke about? I am thinking that the tractor is abandoned and the field cover it, I cant imagine other situation. Help me please. Thank you in advance. PS: I am a native spanish speaker. Answer The joke … Read more
Question Is et viola [sic](spelled like this intentionally) just a misspelling of et voila or is it an actual word, or perhaps an inside joke (not just a one-off thing)? Background Based on this answer by Bread, there has been some discussion about the idiom et viola [sic]. The discussion stems from this phrase on … Read more
The Late Show host, Stephen Colbert (an American talk show host, don’t mind that, just think of him as some random guy you don’t have to care about) quite often uses a type of joke whereby he describes one thing to mislead you, then name the other thing that you’ve thought the preceding description described … Read more
I watch this interesting clip today (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLsWif6-Jfg), but I don’t really understand the joke that he makes, which is: A: We’re going to mountain-climbing tomorrow, but I don’t think you should climb to fast. B: You don’t think I should climb to fast? Why do you say that? A: Well if you peak too soon, … Read more
Imagine the use escenario for the typical expression I’m trying to find to describe when oneself or someone else builds upon a joke/silliness that was just made/said, expanding the joke, bringing a new comedic effect, or “committing” even deeper into an inappropriate or dark-humored assertion. I have the vague impression that the expression I’m looking … Read more
Growing up in Canada, I heard this dialogue a hundred times:\ Dude: "What time is it?" Guy pantomimes watch-checking, but his wrist is bare Guy: "It’s a freckle past a hair." Wiktionary even has a scant entry, except with the nouns flipped: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_hair_past_a_freckle I’ve even noticed this joke fading; perhaps it is because of smartphones. … Read more
With the death of the UK Comedy Legend that was Barry Cryer, many of the obituaries are mentioning his favorite joke (which is proliferating across the internet yet again) … was once asked by the Yorkshire Post for his favourite joke. He recalled one he had told in a student revue in 1955. "A man … Read more
The joke is: “Yesterday a pig invited me to see his new home. Actually it was quite stylish.” How should one understand this? It does’t seem funny at all. Answer Pigs live in a sty: a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen. dictionary.com The joke is using “stylish” to mean “like a sty”. It is … Read more
Here is a sentence from Making Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin: They are just part of the world’s most clunky writing system, and a writing system cannot cause a language to be processed in a different part of the brain any more than it can force it to some other part of the body … Read more
