Stealth Pun/Other Media

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Examples of Stealth Puns in Other Media include:

  • There are a number of riddles of the form "What's the difference between a X and a Y?" where only the first half of the punchline is ever given, to avoid speaking profanity. Suffice it to say there are many half-punchlines with the word cunning in them, followed by a word that rhymes with hunt and doesn't start with the letter C.
    • What's the difference between (annoying female celebrity) and the Panama Canal? Well, the Panama Canal is a busy ditch ...
    • What's the difference between a smart midget and gonorrhea? A smart midget is a cunning runt ...
    • What's the difference between a tailor and a bad viola player? Well, the tailor tucks up the frills...
    • What's the difference between a chiropodist and a bad drummer? Well, the chiropodist bucks up the feet...
    • What's the difference between a clever spoonerism and a fart? One's a shaft of wit...
    • What's the difference between an epileptic corn farmer and a prostitute with diarrhea? One of them shucks between fits...
    • What's the difference between a rooster and a lawyer? One of them clucks defiance...
    • What's the difference between a baby and a high-school choir director? The baby sucks his fingers...
    • What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? The pickpocket snatches watches...
    • What's the difference between Barnum & Bailey's Circus and a line of Playboy bunnies? The circus is a cunning array of stunts...
    • What's the difference between a woman in church and a woman in a bathtub? The woman in church has hope in her soul...
    • What's the difference between a snake and a goose? A snake is an asp in the grass...
    • What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? Well, one's a sick duck... I forget the rest Trebek, but your mother's a whore.
    • What's the difference between the manager of Barclays having a fight and Inspector Fowler having a conversation? Well, one's a warring banker...

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