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** [[Directionless Driver|"Men don't ask for directions."]]

** "Men are simple; women are complex."

** Parodied in [[The Simpsons]] with Rainier "McBain" Wolfcastle's "Why do men leave the toilet seat up?...[[Don't Explain the Joke|That's the joke]]."

** Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with Rainier "McBain" Wolfcastle's "Why do men leave the toilet seat up?...[[Don't Explain the Joke|That's the joke]]."

* "[[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Soviet Russia]], comedy stands you up!" (originally the shtick of Yakov Smirnoff)

* "[[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Soviet Russia]], comedy stands you up!" (originally the shtick of [[Yakov Smirnoff]])

* "Kids these days..."

** "The music these kids listen to..."

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** "Have you seen the clothes these kids wear?"

** "Bike helmets and seatbelts and sunscreen are garbage! When I was a kid..."

* "Hollywood is so messed up- sex is rated R or X/NC-17, and explosions are fun for kids!"

* "Hollywood is so messed up - sex is rated R or X/NC-17, and explosions are fun for kids!"

* "Why don't they just make the planes out of the black box material."

** (Reason: It'd be too heavy to fly, and an unbreakable plane wouldn't help all those poor breakable folks inside anyway.)

* "If [[Gilligan's Island|the Professor]] could build a radio transmitter out of [[Bamboo Technology|bamboo and coconuts]], why couldn't he fix the damn boat?"

** (Reason: No worries about tenure or students, he gets to work on whatever he wants, he has no apparent competition for two hot women... why would he ''want'' to fix the boat?)

* Parodied in ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': [http://www.homestarrunner.com/ween04.html Women can't drive!]

* Pretending to explain the joke to someone in the front row.

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* "Take my wife... ''please!''"

** Which is so famous ''as'' a Stock Shtick that it's possible to forget that it was originally meant to sound like it means "my wife, for example", and some people seem to think it's an example of an [[Orphaned Punchline]].

*** Actually, this was originally the shtick of [[wikipedia:Henny Youngman|Henny Youngman]]. His on-stage character really, ''really'' didn't like his wife.

* "Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" Though attributed to Groucho Marx on many sites, it's really an old vaudeville joke that was overused to death.

* "Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" Though attributed to [[wikipedia:Groucho Marx|Groucho Marx]] on many sites, it's really an old vaudeville joke that was overused to death.

* Interfering mothers-in-law as [[Acceptable Targets]].

{{quote|'''[[Jasper Carrott]]''': I don't like the whole tired old comedy schtick about mothers-in-law. I get on very well with mine. In fact I've just bought her a house. In Iran.}}

* "[[Rule of Three|But seriously, what's the deal with airline food?]]"

* "... and then I got off the bus", otherwise known as 'pull back and reveal'. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j9yBOXyPVc Deconstructed] by Lee and Herring.

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* A [[Dilbert]] cartoon referenced '''Stock Shticks''' when Dilbert entered a stand-up competition 'with the mandatory categories; [[Dan Quayle]], Flatulence and the [[Mattress Tag Gag|warning labels on mattresses]]'

* Speaking of which: [[Mattress Tag Gag|the warning labels on mattresses]].

* "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here all week." Said after a joke that didn't go over.

* Kids saying the darndest things. Summed up by [[Stewart Lee]] as "Some of the things kids say are mad though. It's like they can only understand the world from the perspective of a child"

* [[wikipedia:Kids Say the Darndest Things|Kids saying the darndest things]]. Summed up by [[Stewart Lee]] as "Some of the things kids say are mad though. It's like they can only understand the world from the perspective of a child"

** Originally a regular spot on Art Linkletter's radio show ''House Party'' (where it was the kids themselves saying those darndest things), making this [[Older Than Television]].

* "Why are cabbies such bad drivers? And why are they all Middle Eastern or South Asian immigrants?"

* A comedian starting their act with 'I'm [name of comic], just in case you were thinking that [name of other celebrity that comic resembles] has let themselves go recently'

* "So, did you hear about [[Buffy-Speak|this [insert news story or pop-culture phenomenon] thing]]?" (Done to death by Jimmy Vulmer on ''[[South Park]]'': "Did you see this? Did you hear about this?")

* "Anybody here from out of town?"

** [[Garfield|"]]''~~[[Garfield|~~Anybody]]'' ~~[[Garfield|~~here]]?!"

** [[Garfield|"''Anybody'' here]]?!"

* "So a guy walks into a bar..."

** [[Literal-Minded|"He says, 'Ow.' "]]

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*** "[[The Golden Girls|There's a man leaving in ten minutes. Be under him.]]"

** "Looks like there's a village missing its idiot"

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* A [[Dilbert]] cartoon referenced '''Stock Shticks''' when Dilbert entered a stand-up competition 'with the mandatory categories; [[Dan Quayle]], Flatulence and the [[Mattress Tag Gag|warning labels on mattresses]]'

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