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== Advertising ==
* The Chase credit card company runs a series of commercials in which couples relay outrageous travel tales to their friends; we became fast friends with Chevy Chase, our son discovered a dinosaur, etc. The friends are stunned...because the couple was able to use its frequent flier miles on a whim, over a holiday and to a desirable destination.
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{{quote|'''Mick:''' Your debut film is ''porn!'' You made a sex tape!
'''Panty:''' [[Big "What?"|WHAT?!]] Serious?! So it was just [[Direct to Video]]?! Well that explains why it hadn't won an Oscar yet! }}
* On his first album, ''Shame Based Man'', [[Kids in The Hall|Bruce McCulloch]] had a recurring bit with a radio call-in show. The last of these is some happy idiot calling to say all the lonely people should "pair up". The host then gives her a list of reasons this is a dumb idea, all of which are [[The Ditz|lost on her]].▼
* Comedian Mike Williams bases a comedy routine around McDonalds drive-throughs having a sign saying that they have Braille menus (for people who can't see) and picture menus (for people who can't read). To repeat, this is in the DRIVE-THRU. He claims to go up to the window in dark shades to ask for a Braille menu, to be told, "Sorry, we're out of Braille menus; would you like a picture menu?"▼
* A skit goes with a person walking into a restaurant and ordering a drink and a sweet roll. The waiter informs them that they are out of sweet rolls. The person thinks that apparently ordering different combinations of "sweetroll + drink" will eventually get them one, and they continue to order a sweet roll despite the waiter's increasingly angry responses that they don't have any. Eventually, the waiter gives up and walks off. The person then says "I wonder how long it'll take my sweet roll to get here."▼
* On the soundtrack album to ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', John Cleese plays a logician commenting on the 'witch burning' segment, citing the same logical lapses that his wife commits:▼
{{quote|Given the premise "All fish live underwater", and "All mackerel are fish", she will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater, but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore.}}▼
* [[Jimmy Carr]], after his delayed reaction to the audience after this joke:▼
{{quote|"People like to smoke a cigarette after sex, but you can't buy cigarettes until you're sixteen, so I have to buy them for ''both'' of us. [To audience] You think it's wrong I'm buying a 15 year old cigarettes? [Realizing] You think it's wrong I'm ''fucking her?''"}}▼
** In many countries the age of consent for sex is 15 to 18, but the minimum age required to buy alcohol or tobacco is 18 to 21 ([[Sarcasm Mode|this including a certain large country we all know about...]]) - so it's 100 percent legal to have sex with a 15 year old, but illegal and punished by fines to give her cigarettes or a glass of beer.▼
* [[Jeff Foxworthy]] describes how, growing up, the mailbox outside his family's house had the letters "male" painted on the side of it. By the time he was in the eleventh grade Jeff realized "That ain't right. That M's supposed to be capitalized, innit?"▼
* German comedian Otto Waalkes once made this joke: "In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted: 'And in the year of 1985, a red-haired young man from Leimen named [[wikipedia:Boris Becker|Boris]] will win the final in Wimbledon' - which is complete nonsense: First, my name is Erwin,<ref>Otto's persona</ref> not Boris; second, I'm blond, not red-haired; third, I'm not from Leimen, but from Emden; and fourth, if I had won the 1985 Wimbledon, I'd definitely remember that."▼
* The basis of one of [[Dave Chappelle]]'s jokes, from ''Killing Them Softly,'' detailing a restaurant waiter telling him "blacks and chickens are quite fond of one another." Dave comments on the incident:▼
{{quote|''"All these years I thought I liked chicken 'cause it was delicious. It turns out I'm genetically predisposed of liking chicken!"''}}▼
== Comic Books ==
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'''Lucy''': Wow, I didn't know that about him.
'''Tom''': Me neither. I thought his favourite film was ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', but it turns out it was ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. }}
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
▲* On his first album, ''Shame Based Man'', [[Kids in The Hall|Bruce McCulloch]] had a recurring bit with a radio call-in show. The last of these is some happy idiot calling to say all the lonely people should "pair up". The host then gives her a list of reasons this is a dumb idea, all of which are [[The Ditz|lost on her]].
▲* Comedian Mike Williams bases a comedy routine around McDonalds drive-throughs having a sign saying that they have Braille menus (for people who can't see) and picture menus (for people who can't read). To repeat, this is in the DRIVE-THRU. He claims to go up to the window in dark shades to ask for a Braille menu, to be told, "Sorry, we're out of Braille menus; would you like a picture menu?"
▲* A skit goes with a person walking into a restaurant and ordering a drink and a sweet roll. The waiter informs them that they are out of sweet rolls. The person thinks that apparently ordering different combinations of "sweetroll + drink" will eventually get them one, and they continue to order a sweet roll despite the waiter's increasingly angry responses that they don't have any. Eventually, the waiter gives up and walks off. The person then says "I wonder how long it'll take my sweet roll to get here."
▲* On the soundtrack album to ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', John Cleese plays a logician commenting on the
▲{{quote|Given the premise "All fish live underwater", and "All mackerel are fish", she will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater, but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore.}}
▲* [[Jimmy Carr]], after his delayed reaction to the audience after this joke:
▲{{quote|"People like to smoke a cigarette after sex, but you can't buy cigarettes until you're sixteen, so I have to buy them for ''both'' of us. [To audience] You think it's wrong I'm buying a
▲** In many countries the age of consent for sex is
▲* [[Jeff Foxworthy]] describes how, growing up, the mailbox outside his family's house had the letters "male" painted on the side of it. By the time he was in the eleventh grade Jeff realized "That ain't right. That M's supposed to be capitalized, innit?"
▲* German comedian Otto Waalkes once made this joke: "In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted: 'And in the year of 1985, a red-haired young man from Leimen named [[wikipedia:Boris Becker|Boris]] will win the final in Wimbledon' - which is complete nonsense: First, my name is Erwin,<ref>Otto's persona</ref> not Boris; second, I'm blond, not red-haired; third, I'm not from Leimen, but from Emden; and fourth, if I had won the 1985 Wimbledon, I'd definitely remember that."
▲* The basis of one of [[Dave Chappelle]]'s jokes, from ''Killing Them Softly,'' detailing a restaurant waiter telling him "blacks and chickens are quite fond of one another." Dave comments on the incident:
▲{{quote|''"All these years I thought I liked chicken 'cause it was delicious. It turns out I'm genetically predisposed of liking chicken!"''}}
== Religion and Mythology ==
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* After seeing [[Phelous]] hanging himself from the horror of ''Caligula'', [[The Cinema Snob]] is shocked that the camera turned itself off!
** [[80's Dan]] is prone to this, like his verdict on Mrs. Crabtree's Halloween outfit.
{{quote|I'm [[Battlestar Galactica
That is the worst [[Battlestar Galactica
** Then he mistakes Dolly's [[Sailor Moon]] outfit for a [[Sexy Whatever Outfit|sexy Donald Duck outfit]].
* [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBxSmHMS1w/ThkdL7mRwbI/AAAAAAAAPXE/Oumc5W6d-H0/s1600/redact.jpg There's a Post Secret about someone whose mother bought them a Post Secret book, but blacked out all the "inappropriate" parts.]
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