History Main / StockShticks

* Due to his global fame and overexposed private life Music/MichaelJackson was also a popular and easy topic for comedians from the 1980s on until the late 2000s. Many jokes would revolve around his face lifts, childlike behaviour or supposed paedophilia. After his death this shtick has more or less disappeared.

* [[OverusedRunningGag Seriously, what is it with airline food?]]

* FunnyForeigner: While laughing with other ethnicities has become less accepted since the 1980s poking fun at white people from other countries (dumb obese Americans, [[BritishStuffiness stuffy Englishmen]], [[FrenchJerk arrogant Frenchmen]], [[AllGermansAreNazis evil Germans]], [[ThriftyScot thrifty Scots]],... is still very common. Especially when using the appropriate accents.

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

** "[[{{Futurama}} The people under the yellow sun be like this, while the people under the red sun be like this!]]"

** [[TheSimpsons Krusty the clown]] lampshades this (and the airline peanuts example above) during an act where he bashes his fellow standup comedians.

** "[[PattonOswalt The food on airlines is BULLSHIT!]]"

** This joke has the dubious distinction of being so dumb and overused that DouglasAdams claims it made him want to never write comedy again.

* Interfering mothers-in-law as AcceptableTargets.
--> '''Creator/JasperCarrott:''' 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.

* A ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} cartoon referenced StockShticks when Dilbert entered a stand-up competition 'with the mandatory categories; DanQuayle, Flatulence and the [[MattressTagGag warning labels on mattresses]]'

* "All men are stupid." (oddly, this is mostly used by male comedians, notably Tim Allen)

--> '''JasperCarrott''': 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.

* "But seriously, what's the deal with airline food?"

Shticks:

** While it's associated with him, Seinfeld himself only ever did that shtick to make fun of how cliched it was.

* "If [[Series/GilligansIsland the Professor]] could build a radio transmitter out of [[BambooTechnology bamboo and coconuts]], why couldn't he fix the damn boat?" [[labelnote:note]]In an early episode, he almost did fix it, but the glue he used caused the entire boat to fall to pieces--so after that, fixing it was no longer an option. And [[JustEatGilligan guess whose fault it was]]?[[/label note]]

* "If [[Series/GilligansIsland the Professor]] could build a radio transmitter out of [[BambooTechnology bamboo and coconuts]], why couldn't he fix the damn boat?" [[labelnote]]In an early episode, he almost did fix it, but the glue he used caused the entire boat to fall to pieces--so after that, fixing it was no longer an option. And [[JustEatGilligan guess whose fault it was]]?[[/label note]]

* "If [[Series/GilligansIsland the Professor]] could build a radio transmitter out of [[BambooTechnology bamboo and coconuts]], why couldn't he fix the damn boat?"

* "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.)

*** "[Series/[TheGoldenGirls There's a man leaving in ten minutes. Be under him.]]"

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

* "If [[Series//GilligansIsland the Professor]] could build a radio transmitter out of [[BambooTechnology bamboo and coconuts]], why couldn't he fix the damn boat?"

* "If [[GilligansIsland the Professor]] could build a radio transmitter out of [[BambooTechnology bamboo and coconuts]], why couldn't he fix the damn boat?"

* "[[RuleOfThree But seriously, what's the deal with airline food?]]"

** [[{{Garfield}} "]]''[[{{Garfield}} Anybody]]'' [[{{Garfield}} here]]?!"

*** "[[TheGoldenGirls There's a man leaving in ten minutes. Be under him.]]"