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* [[Call Back]]: One of the masters of this technique.
{{quote|''" My Grandfather built his house out of old [[The Poppy|discarded poppies]]...now remember that because I'll be coming back to my Grandfather and, um, his nest of poppies and it'll be, um, extremely satisfying.'' }}
** In ''Content Provider'', Lee lampshades his use of callbacks in a bit at the end of the first half, revealing a "glimpse behind the Wizard's Curtain". From then on, the number and use of callbacks is marked, even though they are used (often through repetition) throughout the first half too:
{{Quote|"Just quickly, I'm gonna go over some of the jokes coming up in the second half...In the second half there's gonna be 2 more jokes about Deacon Blue, the eighties Scottish...they're not hilarious jokes, but what they are is what we call ''callbacks'', and they tie back to the earlier mention of Deacon Blue and they give the show the ''illusion of structure'', right, which is what raises us above the apes I think. Or ''"visiting American stand ups"'', as I call them."}}
*** Having planted the seed of 'callbacks to come', the joke about American comics not using them (being apes, or less evolved) allows Lee, via a string of jokes which callback to the first half, to announce the interval, effectively pushing the callback (device) out of consciousness, until later on.
* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: He can, but his on-stage persona is that of a miserable failure, and so he takes great delight in pretending to tell awful jokes, when the comedy really comes from his despair.
** He will also frequently tell a joke that is different from his usual style and then berate the audience for liking it, because it was shallow and simple-minded.
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