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18* Creator/RowanAtkinson pulled this off in Fatal Beatings, when he called in a student's father to his office to discuss his son's currently poor 'attitude' to school life. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMoB6ms2mE here]].
19* The basis of one of Creator/DaveChappelle's jokes, from ''Killing Them Softly,'' about a racist waiter.
20-->'''Dave:''' I said, "I would like to have..." and before I could even finish my sentence, he says, "...the ''chicken!''" I said, "What the fuck?" I could not believe it! Could not believe that shit. ''[beat]'' This man was absolutely right! How did he know that I was gonna get some chicken?!
21* Creator/GeorgeCarlin had the following as part of a newsreading bit from his HBO special, ''Carlin At Carnegie'':
22-->"A man shot six people on the downtown bus today, then asked for a transfer and shot six people on the crosstown bus. To prevent this from happening in the future, authorities are discontinuing the transfer system".
23* Creator/JimmyCarr, after his delayed reaction to the audience after this joke:
24-->"People like to smoke a cigarette after sex, but you can't buy cigarettes until you're sixteen, so I have to buy them for ''both'' of us. [To audience] You think it's wrong I'm buying a 15 year old cigarettes? [Realizing] You think it's wrong I'm ''fucking her?''"
25* On the soundtrack album to ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', Creator/JohnCleese plays a logician commenting on the 'witch burning' segment, citing the same logical lapses that his wife commits:
26--> Given the premise "All fish live underwater", and "All mackerel are fish", she will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater, but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore.
27* In his ''Live at The Comedy Store'' special, Creator/LouisCK tells a story about a friend of his who was deeply offended to hear his brother complaining about his job where "A nigger fell asleep at the forklift!" Everyone Louis relates the story to is far more shocked to hear that someone fell asleep on a forklift than they are to hear the guy described with a nasty racial epithet-- including several of Louis' black co-writers.
28* Creator/JeffFoxworthy describes how, growing up, the mailbox outside his family's house had the letters "male" painted on the side of it. It wasn't until he was in the eleventh grade that Jeff realized, "That ain't right. [{{Beat}}] That M's s'posed to be capitalized, innit?"
29* On his first album, ''Shame Based Man'', [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall Bruce McCulloch]] had a recurring bit with a radio call-in show. The last of these is some happy idiot calling to say all the lonely people should "pair up". The host then gives her a list of reasons this is a dumb idea, all of which are [[TheDitz lost on her]].
30* Creator/JohnMulaney recounts a movie date he went on to see ''Film/{{Ray}}'', where afterwards his date complained at how unnecessarily dark it was, saying "I didn't need the whole 'little brother dying' thing."
31-->'''Mulaney:''' "...Neither did Music/RayCharles. But [[BasedOnATrueStory it happened just the same]]. He could've ''totally'' done without that!"
32* On his show, [[Series/{{Conan}} Conan O'Brien]] said, "After being drafted by the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague St. Louis Rams]], Michael Sam celebrated by kissing his boyfriend. This is historic because it's the first time anyone has celebrated being drafted by the St. Louis Rams."
33* Comedian Mike Williams bases a comedy routine around [=McDonalds=] drive-throughs having a sign saying that they have Braille menus (for people who can't see) and picture menus (for people who can't read). To repeat, this is in the DRIVE-THRU. He claims to go up to the window in dark shades to ask for a Braille menu, to be told, "Sorry, we're out of Braille menus; would you like a picture menu?"
34* German comedian Otto Waalkes once made this joke: "In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted: 'And in the year of 1985, a red-haired young man from Leimen named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Becker Boris]] will win the final in Wimbledon' - which is complete nonsense: First, my name is Erwin[[note]]Otto's persona[[/note]], not Boris; second, I'm blond, not red-haired; third, I'm not from Leimen, but from Emden; and fourth, if I had won the 1985 Wimbledon, I'd definitely remember that."
35* A skit goes with a person walking into a restaurant and ordering a drink and a sweet roll. The waiter informs them that they are out of sweet rolls. The person thinks that apparently ordering different combinations of "sweetroll + drink" will eventually get them one, and they continue to order a sweet roll despite the waiter's increasingly angry responses that they don't have any. Eventually, the waiter gives up and walks off. The person then says "I wonder how long it'll take my sweet roll to get here."
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