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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:

* Played straight, then lampshaded into [[Cluster F-Bomb]] territory in Louis-José Houde's special ''Suivre la parade'' during an extended bit about [[Mood Whiplash|his ex-girlfriend's abortion]]. He describes going home after the procedure and (after wishing his own father a happy birthday) listening to a new voicemail message from his agent: he's just won an award from a kids' TV station for "the performer that you'd would most like as a dad."
* Played straight, then lampshaded into [[Cluster F-Bomb]] territory in Louis-José Houde's special ''Suivre la parade'' during an extended bit about [[Mood Whiplash|his ex-girlfriend's abortion]]. He describes going home after the procedure and (after wishing his own father a happy birthday) listening to a new voicemail message from his agent: he's just won an award from a kids' TV station for "the performer that you'd would most like as a dad."
{{quote| '''Houde:''' ''(after a long pause, quietly)'' ...Tabarnac. ''(audience laughs)'' I'm sorry, there's one swear word in the show, there it is -- tabarnac. It's a tabarnac case, I have to, I'm sorry. At that moment in your life, I swear, that's what comes out -- tabarnac. Tabarnac, tabarnac, tabarnac.}}
{{quote|'''Houde:''' ''(after a long pause, quietly)'' ...Tabarnac. ''(audience laughs)'' I'm sorry, there's one swear word in the show, there it is -- tabarnac. It's a tabarnac case, I have to, I'm sorry. At that moment in your life, I swear, that's what comes out -- tabarnac. Tabarnac, tabarnac, tabarnac.}}
* [[Bill Cosby]], of all people, drops one in ''Himself'':
* [[Bill Cosby]], of all people, drops one in ''Himself'':
{{quote| '''Bill Cosby:''' So I asked, 'what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?" He said 'Well, it intensifies your personality.' I said, 'Yes, but what if you're an asshole?'"}}
{{quote|'''Bill Cosby:''' So I asked, 'what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?" He said 'Well, it intensifies your personality.' I said, 'Yes, but what if you're an asshole?'"}}
** It's secondhand, but: [[Eddie Murphy]] did a hilarious bit about Cosby chiding him for his use of foul language. It culminates with Murphy-imitating-Cosby saying "Yooooooooooou ''([[Beat]])'' cannot say ''(beat)'' FUCK. ''(beat)'' In front of people." In the mid-1980s, the mere suggestion that Bill Cosby actually said "fuck" is enough to bring the house down.
** It's secondhand, but: [[Eddie Murphy]] did a hilarious bit about Cosby chiding him for his use of foul language. It culminates with Murphy-imitating-Cosby saying "Yooooooooooou ''([[Beat]])'' cannot say ''(beat)'' FUCK. ''(beat)'' In front of people." In the mid-1980s, the mere suggestion that Bill Cosby actually said "fuck" is enough to bring the house down.


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Latest revision as of 23:56, 31 March 2022


Examples of Precision F-Strikes in Recorded and Stand Up Comedy include:

  • Played straight, then lampshaded into Cluster F-Bomb territory in Louis-José Houde's special Suivre la parade during an extended bit about his ex-girlfriend's abortion. He describes going home after the procedure and (after wishing his own father a happy birthday) listening to a new voicemail message from his agent: he's just won an award from a kids' TV station for "the performer that you'd would most like as a dad."

Houde: (after a long pause, quietly) ...Tabarnac. (audience laughs) I'm sorry, there's one swear word in the show, there it is -- tabarnac. It's a tabarnac case, I have to, I'm sorry. At that moment in your life, I swear, that's what comes out -- tabarnac. Tabarnac, tabarnac, tabarnac.

Bill Cosby: So I asked, 'what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?" He said 'Well, it intensifies your personality.' I said, 'Yes, but what if you're an asshole?'"

    • It's secondhand, but: Eddie Murphy did a hilarious bit about Cosby chiding him for his use of foul language. It culminates with Murphy-imitating-Cosby saying "Yooooooooooou (Beat) cannot say (beat) FUCK. (beat) In front of people." In the mid-1980s, the mere suggestion that Bill Cosby actually said "fuck" is enough to bring the house down.
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