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• Many of the puns could amount to this, but here's one of this troper's favorites:
  John: Beat the eggs, whip the cream, and strangle the butter.
  • Also worth mentioning is the Black Cinderella 2 Goes East variation.
  Cinderella: There's so much to do — darn the socks, stuff the turkey, bugger the ironing...
• The subversion of one of their regular Hurricanes of Puns in "Jorrocks, the Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man". One of their regular skits was to read lists of people's names (e.g Mr and Mrs Ahandbasket and their daughter Helen Ahandbasket) and after John Cleese read out "Mr and Mrs Aceousborder" the joke was so predictable that some members of the audience were already calling out "Herb Aceousborder" (a pretentious term for "garden hedge"). When Cleese instead said "John Aceousborder" the audience screamed with laughter.
• Most of the "Macbeth" story, but especially his meeting with the three Weird Sisters:
  Hecate: Macbeth, Macbeth!
  Macbeth: You know my name!
  Hecate: No, it was just an inspired guess.
  Macbeth: You evil creatures!
  Hecate: Yes! We can!
  Macbeth: I hear you can foretell the future! <beat> Wait a moment, that's very good!
  Hecate: It's true, we can!
  Macbeth: Then tell the future for me.
  Hecate: Hail Macbeth!
  Weird Sisters: Hail! Hail! Hail!
  Macbeth: Not the weather, give me a prediction!
  Hecate: Macbeth! Thou shalt be Thane of Glamis!
  2nd Weird Sister: And thou shalt be Thane of Cawdor!
  Macbeth: Thane?! THANE!? <Beat> What the hell's a Thane?
  Hecate: You'll thoon find out, thweetie.
  2nd Weird Sister: And thou shalt be King hereafter.
  Macbeth: KING?!
  Hecate: And you, Banquo.
  Banquo: Yes?
  Hecate: You will not be King. Yet you shall be royal!
  Banquo: Oh! Oh... I'm going to be Queen!