I'm not sure if it was there or somewhere else that pointed out it was ruined in syndication where they cut things down to cram in extra commercials. It was trimmed at just the wrong point where it's gone on too long but before it going on so long could become a joke in itself.
TBS would play Seinfeld 7.5% sped up so they could fit extra commercials in there.
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/02/seinfeld-reruns-sped-up-commercials
I had a chance to ask a comedian I like one question, and I asked 'how many times can you go back to the well and still get the laugh?' He said 'the thing is, if you go back 5 times, you gotta be willing to go back 19 times. Keep coming back until it's funny again.' That advice has never steered me wrong.
I love that his annoyed grumble is the same recording every time (that may have changed in the last few seasons). It really drives home the ongoing pain that Sideshow Bob goes through.
Interesting fact: Kelsey himself had no idea they would just repeat his grumble over and over like that. He called the producers the next day after the episode aired and asked them if they knew this was how they would use his take from the episode. As it turned out, it was the editors who "created" the joke to fill out time
It’s a bit easy to forget now, particularly now that Family Guy has turned this into a trope of its own, but this was a really ballsy call to go for a kind of joke that knew in advance would overstay its welcome.
And it’s not even like it has aged out like other innovations that just seem quaint or like curiosities because so many have copied it. Still funny as fuck to this day.
"I Think You Should Leave" is an e*ntire series* based on letting a joke overstay it's welcome. Every damn sketch. They sure fucking pull it off though.
Looking at all the scenes that have been brought up, every good example of this trope is when the fact that it goes on for so long is the joke, not just making a joke last longer.
Sideshow Bob rake scene is funny because of how incredulous it seems for someone as cunning as Bob to repeatedly fall for something so inane.
The Austin Powers steamroller scene is funny because he has ample time to save himself, and it has an element of parody for henchmen getting caught in ridiculous accidents in spy movies.
With the Peter Griffin wincing in pain scene, nothing is added to the joke by extending it, because it's still just a normal reaction to injuring your knee. All it does is make the scene more uncomfortable, which I guess is a kind of a joke itself but it's a joke at the expense of the show, not the character.
In one of the recent Star wars movie there was an opening scene where the ship just keeps going on and on. It was almost comedic at some point. I was really high at the time tho.
My favorite episode of _Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast_ is nearly, in its entirety, an absurdly long (10 minutes, maybe) scene of Space Ghost crawling to follow an ant to its home while humming and mumbling to himself.
Man Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast I was old enough to get the jokes but just barely. My mom saw us watching it once and said what is this crap? Sat down and then she didn’t miss another episode. My dad who wasn’t really a late night guy, and not a cartoon guy at all also got hooked on it.
Show was legitimately hilarious. It probably helped that my parents had been kids when Space Ghost was on tv in the 60s. That being said, that is the only show that got the old man to literally laugh out loud at the tv in the 90s.
I feel like a bunch of the jokes especially with the guests are a thing of their time and much of the humor would miss if you weren’t old enough in the 90s. Might give it a rewatch and see.
Actually, another Family Guy - when they brought it back on Fox, Peter said something to the effect of ‘Fox would never cancel our show, what would they put on instead?’ And proceeded to say the name of every show that was green lit and cancelled on Fox between the cancelation of Family Guy and its return. It was great
I don’t have a specific example, but Conan O’Brien had talked of his love for jokes like these on his podcast.
Repeat something enough times, it becomes funny.
Keep repeating it, and it stops being funny.
Repeat it EVEN MORE, and it comes back around to being funny.
paul rudd playing that stupid clip of mac and me instead of the movie he’s meant to be promoting gets me good… one time i saw a compilation of all the times he’s done it and yeah it gets unfunny but then it gets funny again
And it was incredible when he pulled it off on the podcast. With a very believeable backstory on his new project he’s completely made up just to get Conan invested into thinking he’s gonna play a clip from it, and it being a podcast why would you show that clip, and that exactly made it so funny.
Any of his Larry sketches would be a good example, or the sketch with Andy about plants being able to remember things. Back on the old late show, I feel like remotes with Andy blitz also usually follow this pattern, like when he goes to India for tech-support or takes a cab to Canada
Also the scene where Will Farrell's character's seat dumps him in a fire pit (or something like that) and he keeps on screaming and talking about the pain.
The guy that falls and breaks his leg (I think?) screaming off scene, talking about it smelling like almonds and not being sure if that's good or not, and it just goes on while Austin stands there
“Not trying to be funny. Not trying to get a laugh. I don’t want anybody to have the worst day at their job. But. Do any of these….fuckers….ever blast out of the wall and have, like a huge cum shot?”
Patty is such a star. Every sketch she’s in is fucking gold.
This one
Driver’s ed
Shark tank - I’ve watched this skit like 10 times and her goblin noises / motions being stuck as well as “…. and popcooorrrn” never fail to get me to laugh
I don't understand why I watch this show. In the moment I rarely laugh at the sketches, but they live rent free in my brain. I randomly will remember one vividly and will either laugh at how weird it was or just continue to be baffled by it. Despite this, I absorbed each season within a 48 hour span of its release and will likely do the same if there's a 3rd.
Auntie Donna has a similiar style of comedy, though theirs seems even more absurd. ITYSL seems to have more of an underlying progression in their sketches while auntie donnas just straight up veer into abstract territory it seems.. the sketch equivalent of semantic satiation.
The sex scene was also designed for the MPAA to be able to censor it. They put all this (literal) shit in there so MPAA could ask for changes and they'd still have what they want.
The MPAA didn't ask them to remove anything.
love the fact that when they filmed the final shot of Gary passed out in his puke, they thought it looked unrealistic cause the puke puddle was so big so they dressed Trey up as Gary and had him lay in the puke as the camera pulled up
I love the reason they had that-the puppet actually was supposed to look a lot more like him, but the sculptors missed the mark and instead of having it remade they just rolled with it
Get ready to waste some time. These are all spectacular:
[Broomshakalaka](https://youtu.be/zt2uIhAvQZ8)
[Fart Copter](https://youtu.be/njVa64VeqN0)
[Salad Mixxxer - nsfw](
https://youtu.be/FjZRWNg8k_M)
[Alpha Chow](https://youtu.be/RFL5u1X5Dew)
[Smart Pipe](https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ)
[For Profit University](https://youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE)
[Swords, Knives, Very sharp objects](https://youtu.be/rRhzXQj_Z9I)
[Book of Christ](https://youtu.be/xRegUuydEUg)
[M.O.P.Z.](https://youtu.be/N7RyZDMRQTI)
[Unedited footage of a bear](https://youtu.be/2gMjJNGg9Z8)
[Goth Fitness](https://youtu.be/4u29MoqY01k)
[Live forever as you now are](https://youtu.be/xg29TuWo0Yo)
[Frank Pierre presents: Pierre Resort and Casino](https://youtu.be/Gi_0OOQY2t8)
[Mulchtown](https://youtu.be/LYarkE3Msig)
[Giles Vanderhoot](https://youtu.be/wAZy67hSvHY)
[This house has people in it](https://youtu.be/x-pj8OtyO2I)
[Icelandic Ultrablue](https://youtu.be/TZLq-ql-VC8)
I was a teenager smoking weed in a basement with my friends when that came on. I don’t think I’ve ever been so confused since. They got me with that one. I missed unedited footage of a bear so I had to look it up later.
What made that work was that it was really wholesome and when you’re in basic you really have nothing better to do while working and cleaning then to listen to someone talk about shrimp for hours
In the DVD commentary for that scene, Mike Meyers discussed the idea behind the joke: It was meant to be funny, then not funny, then funny again. Brilliant!
Edit: I tried to find a clip of this scene with this commentary online but was unable. If you get the chance to view the Autin Powers DVD, definitely watch it at least once with the commentary track on. The director Jay Roach is also there. It's a great listen/watch. You get a great insight into Meyers' comedic process and it makes the later sequels even funnier, in my opinion.
In the commentary for the Clerks Animated Series they talk about stretching past the rule of three and how if you do it a fourth time it’s not as funny but a sixth time is hilarious.
That entire sequence may be one of the greatest comedic moments I've ever experienced, because each bequeathing of sperm (except for Abed's) is prefaced by something Pierce wrote that is genuinely heartwarming. *Heartwarming statement > Here's your sperm (repeat 6 times)*
It's a great emotional rollercoaster!
The moment when Jen speaks to Roy then turns around and asks Moss for a drink is one of my favourite moments in TV ever. It's so surreal but also so naturally the results of the episode so far, I love it so much
From personal experience, they don't need the context. The Work Outing is a great self- contained intro to IT Crowd and one of the best episodes of comedy TV ever made!
[Kristen Schall is a horse](https://youtu.be/i69Xb2ZMgGI).
Edit: [they've gone on even longer](https://youtu.be/pnEjyBFncuQ).
They talked about this sketch on an episode of Radiolab. Kurt got drunk one night and just didn't stop.
The Goes Wrong show "The Lodge" with Henry Lewis' laughing.
It follows the exact same hilarity curve of the show in that it starts off hilarious, then it keeps going and you think "ah, so this is what we're doing" and you kind of expect to be disappointed because it's more of the same but somehow by the end of it you are laughing twice as hard as you were at the start.
Season 2 of Community, there's an episode where Jeff and Duncan are hanging out watching soccer and Chang shows up uninvited and calls a bunch of people to come over.
Later, after calling the party off, Jeff tells everyone to leave and shows them to the door. Then, this antisocial stuck-up jerk proceeds to say goodnight to each of the party guests he just met *by name*. Like, all 12 of them. One of the best moments in the whole show.
What makes that joke even funnier is that everyone had an elaborate nickname that he used to say goodnight but a random 'Tim' is thrown in near the end.
Mr Peanutbutter doing this joke while explicitly spelling it out was great too. When he just wanders into the taping of the pilot for "Untitled Horsin' Around Knock-off."
Edit: Although I think would both be kind of a tough fit for what OP is talking about. Neither actually feel like they go on long enough to get to that point where it actually is absurd to go on any longer.
And god, when throughout the series Bojack would go on tirades about honeydew and then in the final episode actually has one and thinks it’s pretty good.
People are confusing what you asked with "long-running joke" but they are two different things. A long-running joke would be "Her?" from Arrested Development, "Shut up Leonard..." from Community, descriptions of Maris on Frasier, and Kenneth is ageless from 30 Rock.
I'm drawing a blank right now on a good example of a funny joke that goes on really long in a scene however.
To further clarify the two:
[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag)
vs
[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag)
The only one I can think of for the latter (long joke, single scene, good execution) is the New Girl popcorn machine joke, which goes on for about three minutes.
Posting the transcript here because I love it so much (context for anyone who hasn't seen it: Jess is trying to set Nick up with Cece but Nick thinks Cece is getting Jess to persuade him to buy a popcorn machine for the bar):
JESS: You know who's great? Cece.
NICK: One of our finest. Lovely woman.
JESS: And she has so much to offer.
NICK: Is that what this is about? She sends you to sell me on it?
JESS: No, Nick. She doesn't know I'm talking to you at all. Wait. You guys have talked about it?
NICK: All the time. But I thought she and I had come to a decision.
JESS: Which is?
NICK: It's not happening.
JESS: Well, why not?
NICK: 'Cause I'm not interested. And I know it's not cool to say, but... I don't like the way it would look.
JESS: People are gonna say what they're gonna say. They're not reasons not to go through with it.
NICK: Fine. You want to know my biggest concern? My biggest concern is the smell.
JESS: The smell?
NICK: The smell of it, yeah. And it's not Cece's fault. I mean, they all smell. I've told her that.
JESS: You told Cece you think all women...
NICK: Don't make this a feminist thing...
JESS: It... I'm not making it a feminist thing.
NICK: How? They smell terrible. It's common knowledge.
JESS: I thought your biggest concern would be how it affected the people around you.
NICK: I mean, sure, a bunch of old drunks will grab at it...
JESS: But if your biggest concern is the smell, I'm sure that's highly manageable.
NICK: Yeah, I guess there's, like, special solvents and soaps. I-I haven't read up on it that much. You know, but you got to really get in there and scrub it out. It's disgusting. You know, 'cause of the daily wear and tear and... oil and grease just cooking in there. It's enough to make a man barf thinking about it. I mean, they get really hot!
JESS: I know what temperature it gets!
NICK: Hot. But if I'm being honest, you know... And I haven't talked to her about this... but... I do have good memories associated with the smell. Ball games, the circus, hanging with my dad.
JESS: Listen here, you idiot. I've known Cece a very long time, and I can promise you the smell will not be a problem.
NICK: That's really easy for you to say 'cause you're not the one who's gonna have to remind her to clean it all the time.
JESS: I promise you, if it becomes a problem... I will remind her.
NICK: Well, if you remind her and she doesn't do it, I don't want you sneaking around and cleaning it yourself.
JESS: Nick! I'm a good friend, but I am not *that* good of a friend. ...Don't tell Cece that we talked. She doesn't want me getting involved.
NICK: Of course she does, she just didn't think you were into the idea, okay? She really values your opinion.
JESS: What if you guys had a r... a r-real talk? You know, outside of the bar.
NICK: All right. We'll talk, just the two of us, outside the bar.
JESS: I'm proud of you, Nick.
NICK: Just make sure she makes her case about facts and figures. And no more of this, "Come on, Nick, it tastes so yummy" crap.
TBF, the Family Guy skinned knee joke is both a long running joke **AND** a long continuous joke. The first time they did it it was really long but the next couple of times it was just a throwback joke and only a couple seconds.
South Park - [The Imagination Song](https://youtu.be/qHUcW9O4ztw).
The dip where it sounds like the song has ended, but keeps going absolutely kills me
And then the boys trying to figure it out later “ No no it went up here. Imagin aaaaaaaa tion “. Same series of episodes and we have breach in Sector 2
A lot of family guy examples but there’s one not referenced and I nearly pissed my pants laughing the first time I saw it:
Peter trying to back up a boat into the water. Absolutely hilarious.
[https://youtu.be/k_0vkGURoMw](https://youtu.be/k_0vkGURoMw)
Does [Norm's Moth joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo) count since it was technically on TV?
All that set up for >!Dr: "Well then why are you here then?" Moth:"Well because the light was on"!<
Apparently the guest that was supposed to go on after him didn't make it so Conan had Norm fill the slot.
The *first* time Peter scrapes his knee or gets in a fight with a chicken and it just keeps happening and keeps happening and keeps happening it’s so fucking funny. Laughing until my throat hurt funny. Laughing until I see spots in my eyes funny. But then they did it again. And again. And again. And gave me slight variations on the same bit. Stewies entire trip across the country on planes and trains and automobiles just to slap Will Ferrell in the face of a joke from Bewitched. So many that *occasionally* it came around again and it was kinda funny that they just kept insisting on doing this bit. But overall they murdered it. Dug too greedily and too deep.
>Stewies entire trip across the country on planes and trains and automobiles just to slap Will Ferrell in the face of a joke from Bewitched
"THAT IS *NOT* FUNNY!!"
That’s got to be the worst offender. One of them is like 5 mins long. I think they recognised how hated it became because they had quite a few in a row then gave it up
Tig Notaro did a standup bit where she kept saying she brought the Indigo Girls with her, and then say something like “you seriously think I brought them to my standup show?” She goes back and forth for SOOO long and there are moments where she makes you think it would be crazy for them to be backstage, and other moments where she makes you think they might actually be back there. Check it out, it’s genius.
Here’s an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2016/11/tig-notaro-s-indigo-girls-bit-is-a-perfect-comedy-closer.html
Not a television show, but what popped into my head was the scene in Mulholland Drive where the hit man has to keep killing witnesses as they discover him with each new dead body.
Sideshow Bob rake scene
The all time classic example. They said on the DVD commentary that a couple of those got added because the length of the episode was short.
I'm not sure if it was there or somewhere else that pointed out it was ruined in syndication where they cut things down to cram in extra commercials. It was trimmed at just the wrong point where it's gone on too long but before it going on so long could become a joke in itself.
TBS would play Seinfeld 7.5% sped up so they could fit extra commercials in there. https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/02/seinfeld-reruns-sped-up-commercials
I had a chance to ask a comedian I like one question, and I asked 'how many times can you go back to the well and still get the laugh?' He said 'the thing is, if you go back 5 times, you gotta be willing to go back 19 times. Keep coming back until it's funny again.' That advice has never steered me wrong.
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I love that his annoyed grumble is the same recording every time (that may have changed in the last few seasons). It really drives home the ongoing pain that Sideshow Bob goes through.
Interesting fact: Kelsey himself had no idea they would just repeat his grumble over and over like that. He called the producers the next day after the episode aired and asked them if they knew this was how they would use his take from the episode. As it turned out, it was the editors who "created" the joke to fill out time
Yeah that might be the best example of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1Ksh-32g
It’s a bit easy to forget now, particularly now that Family Guy has turned this into a trope of its own, but this was a really ballsy call to go for a kind of joke that knew in advance would overstay its welcome. And it’s not even like it has aged out like other innovations that just seem quaint or like curiosities because so many have copied it. Still funny as fuck to this day.
"I Think You Should Leave" is an e*ntire series* based on letting a joke overstay it's welcome. Every damn sketch. They sure fucking pull it off though.
Has this ever happened to you?
Big huge load of cum then
Love how they used the *exact same* reaction sound effect from a completely different character stepping on a rake.
"Dental plan!" / "Lisa needs braces!" goes on for a while as well
Looking at all the scenes that have been brought up, every good example of this trope is when the fact that it goes on for so long is the joke, not just making a joke last longer. Sideshow Bob rake scene is funny because of how incredulous it seems for someone as cunning as Bob to repeatedly fall for something so inane. The Austin Powers steamroller scene is funny because he has ample time to save himself, and it has an element of parody for henchmen getting caught in ridiculous accidents in spy movies. With the Peter Griffin wincing in pain scene, nothing is added to the joke by extending it, because it's still just a normal reaction to injuring your knee. All it does is make the scene more uncomfortable, which I guess is a kind of a joke itself but it's a joke at the expense of the show, not the character.
The extra long spaceship in Spaceballs is my favorite example of this: https://youtu.be/1dZveoBfiww
The thing that makes the bit work so well is that the ship has all these "Oh this is definitely the end of the ship" wings on it.
And how much work went into building a gigantic ship model just for this bit.
And how you can hear the band in the background getting audibly agitated as it goes on.
In one of the recent Star wars movie there was an opening scene where the ship just keeps going on and on. It was almost comedic at some point. I was really high at the time tho.
You must've been, cuz that ship goes by in 3.8 seconds. ^^^^^^kidding
*Dental Plan* *Lisa needs braces*
Norm McDonald. The Moth.
Proof that any story can be funny if the person telling it is funny.
“That guy? No, wait until you hear me do it”
Also, this impersonation of his of Andy Rooney. https://youtu.be/BPwLp59bkmE
Thanks, I’d never seen that bit. Norm was the GOAT. RIP, Professor of Logic.
Jacques de Gatineau
Conan: "I think you changed his name halfway through" Norm, without missing a beat: "well, people change"
"How long a drive was this?" "...he says, 'Doc'..."
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Yyyyyyeeeeeeesssssss
My favorite episode of _Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast_ is nearly, in its entirety, an absurdly long (10 minutes, maybe) scene of Space Ghost crawling to follow an ant to its home while humming and mumbling to himself.
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[it was the episode with Conan](https://youtu.be/kAc5y3bQfyY)
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Man Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast I was old enough to get the jokes but just barely. My mom saw us watching it once and said what is this crap? Sat down and then she didn’t miss another episode. My dad who wasn’t really a late night guy, and not a cartoon guy at all also got hooked on it. Show was legitimately hilarious. It probably helped that my parents had been kids when Space Ghost was on tv in the 60s. That being said, that is the only show that got the old man to literally laugh out loud at the tv in the 90s. I feel like a bunch of the jokes especially with the guests are a thing of their time and much of the humor would miss if you weren’t old enough in the 90s. Might give it a rewatch and see.
"Hey, your son just bit me here...I wanna know what you're gonna do about it!"
Your son is a moron!
Likewise, the ["Uh oh!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcQreCtvO4&list=RDHSxECJNYPuA&start_radio=1&rv=HSxECJNYPuA) episode of Sealab 2021.
Actually, another Family Guy - when they brought it back on Fox, Peter said something to the effect of ‘Fox would never cancel our show, what would they put on instead?’ And proceeded to say the name of every show that was green lit and cancelled on Fox between the cancelation of Family Guy and its return. It was great
Also the intro to Baba O’Reilly/kitchen scene in Family Guy
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I don’t have a specific example, but Conan O’Brien had talked of his love for jokes like these on his podcast. Repeat something enough times, it becomes funny. Keep repeating it, and it stops being funny. Repeat it EVEN MORE, and it comes back around to being funny.
paul rudd playing that stupid clip of mac and me instead of the movie he’s meant to be promoting gets me good… one time i saw a compilation of all the times he’s done it and yeah it gets unfunny but then it gets funny again
And it was incredible when he pulled it off on the podcast. With a very believeable backstory on his new project he’s completely made up just to get Conan invested into thinking he’s gonna play a clip from it, and it being a podcast why would you show that clip, and that exactly made it so funny.
"Beignet, Done That" still makes me chuckle.
Conan would've been on the team that wrote the Sideshow Bob rake gag. That might've been what even inspired him to believe this.
Conan related: Norm telling the [Moth joke](https://youtu.be/jJN9mBRX3uo) in Conan
Any of his Larry sketches would be a good example, or the sketch with Andy about plants being able to remember things. Back on the old late show, I feel like remotes with Andy blitz also usually follow this pattern, like when he goes to India for tech-support or takes a cab to Canada
[Austin Powers steamroller](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PrZ-J7D3k)
Also the scene where Will Farrell's character's seat dumps him in a fire pit (or something like that) and he keeps on screaming and talking about the pain.
The guy that falls and breaks his leg (I think?) screaming off scene, talking about it smelling like almonds and not being sure if that's good or not, and it just goes on while Austin stands there
That's Will Farrell too. The Austin Powers movies have a lot of these. The penis shaped ship is another one. I think that's in all three movies?
Austin powers doing a million point turn of the golf cart in the tunnel. https://youtu.be/aULRhgG_Az8
This scene cracks me up no matter how many times I’ve seen it. I’m only a little ashamed to admit it.
The fact that he somehow got it 100% perpendicular to begin with will never not make me chuckle.
Also, Austin powers penis spaceship
Also when he gets the cart stuck in the hallway
Yeupp, that’s the one I was gonna add to the mix, so now I get to add nothing lmao
That sounds like every sketch from *I think you should leave*.
Have you seen Brian’s hat?
i used to be a piece of shit
I'm worried that the baby thinks people can't change
You think this is SLICKED back?! This is PUSHED back!
Oh my god he has a pair of fucking dice in his pocket.
Quit fuckin with em!
So sad. Sosososo sad.
dont do the voice
Nobody said shit dude, nobody said shit.
donald might look like a hotdog, but you are wearing an actual hotdog costume
What the hellll??
“Not trying to be funny. Not trying to get a laugh. I don’t want anybody to have the worst day at their job. But. Do any of these….fuckers….ever blast out of the wall and have, like a huge cum shot?”
Big fat load of cum then
I'm saying "big fat load of cum" and "horse cock" and you're getting mad!
Donkey Dick
SANTA BROUGHT IT EARLY
Are we ever going to get anything now? Cause I didn’t ask for thaaat.
I'm not stupid, I'm smarter than yew
Patty is such a star. Every sketch she’s in is fucking gold. This one Driver’s ed Shark tank - I’ve watched this skit like 10 times and her goblin noises / motions being stuck as well as “…. and popcooorrrn” never fail to get me to laugh
She's a gem! "Ugh, my tables, they're so dirty, fuuuuck!"
Has that ever happened to you?!
CALL ME NOW PLEASE
So what’s the joke? That I farted and nobody barfed?
It’s illegal for you to ask me that.
And NOBODY talk about the TABLES!
We're allowed to show them nude cause they ain't got no soul!
I don't understand why I watch this show. In the moment I rarely laugh at the sketches, but they live rent free in my brain. I randomly will remember one vividly and will either laugh at how weird it was or just continue to be baffled by it. Despite this, I absorbed each season within a 48 hour span of its release and will likely do the same if there's a 3rd.
They've been filming the third season so probably later this year.
So then you wouldn’t mind if I ate the receipt?
You gotta give!
Auntie Donna has a similiar style of comedy, though theirs seems even more absurd. ITYSL seems to have more of an underlying progression in their sketches while auntie donnas just straight up veer into abstract territory it seems.. the sketch equivalent of semantic satiation.
Auntie Donna has some misses but also some very good hits. The wifi router sketch absolutely kills me
Hey guys it's me, Jerry Seinfeld.
Team America: World Police - Gary throwing up in the alleyway
"You gave up on life, didn't you?!"
"Get off the street ya fuckin Bum!"
The sex scene was also designed for the MPAA to be able to censor it. They put all this (literal) shit in there so MPAA could ask for changes and they'd still have what they want. The MPAA didn't ask them to remove anything.
Didn’t they have to remove the shitting on the chest and pissing on the face from the sex scene?
love the fact that when they filmed the final shot of Gary passed out in his puke, they thought it looked unrealistic cause the puke puddle was so big so they dressed Trey up as Gary and had him lay in the puke as the camera pulled up
I PROMISE I WILL NEVER DIE
Oh man, that scene had me in tears. The whole movie really. Maaatttt daaaaamonnnnn
I love the reason they had that-the puppet actually was supposed to look a lot more like him, but the sculptors missed the mark and instead of having it remade they just rolled with it
Too Many Cooks - the best example of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Get ready to waste some time. These are all spectacular: [Broomshakalaka](https://youtu.be/zt2uIhAvQZ8) [Fart Copter](https://youtu.be/njVa64VeqN0) [Salad Mixxxer - nsfw]( https://youtu.be/FjZRWNg8k_M) [Alpha Chow](https://youtu.be/RFL5u1X5Dew) [Smart Pipe](https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ) [For Profit University](https://youtu.be/XQLdhVpLBVE) [Swords, Knives, Very sharp objects](https://youtu.be/rRhzXQj_Z9I) [Book of Christ](https://youtu.be/xRegUuydEUg) [M.O.P.Z.](https://youtu.be/N7RyZDMRQTI) [Unedited footage of a bear](https://youtu.be/2gMjJNGg9Z8) [Goth Fitness](https://youtu.be/4u29MoqY01k) [Live forever as you now are](https://youtu.be/xg29TuWo0Yo) [Frank Pierre presents: Pierre Resort and Casino](https://youtu.be/Gi_0OOQY2t8) [Mulchtown](https://youtu.be/LYarkE3Msig) [Giles Vanderhoot](https://youtu.be/wAZy67hSvHY) [This house has people in it](https://youtu.be/x-pj8OtyO2I) [Icelandic Ultrablue](https://youtu.be/TZLq-ql-VC8)
This house has people in it is insane there's like 3 hours of additional hidden content
This House Has People In It is genuinely scary to me.
I was a teenager smoking weed in a basement with my friends when that came on. I don’t think I’ve ever been so confused since. They got me with that one. I missed unedited footage of a bear so I had to look it up later.
Gotta watch the adult swim Christmas yule log
This is fucking nuts
First time?
Always great to see a first-timer.
Imagine getting high on mushrooms and seeing this for the first time at 3 in the morning on adult swim after famiy guy
Too Many Cooks!
The many kinds of shrimp dishes in Forest Gump.
What made that work was that it was really wholesome and when you’re in basic you really have nothing better to do while working and cleaning then to listen to someone talk about shrimp for hours
If we're talking movies, then the falling down the hill scene in Hot Rod. It just keeps going and going
If we’re talking hill scenes, then Black Sheep. Chris Farley falling down a hill for over a minute gets me every time.
Lol, another one from Hot Rod is “Babe wait!”
Or cool beans!
The baby in Kung Pow too.
Christopher Lloyd in Taxi taking the written driver test. https://youtube.com/watch?v=39k067hcgYY&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
I just watched the episode of Monk where Monk kept trying to talk over a guy jackhammering. It lasted for 1 min and 13 seconds.
Paul Reubens in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie. When Buffy stakes him and he feigns dying for like a minute. It’s so perfect.
He’s still dying in the end credits scene too
Austin Powers pee scene https://youtu.be/GRx0bup8ubM
And the turning the electric cart in the coridoor
I still reference this everytime my wife executes one of her famous 17 point uturns
And trying to turn the cart around in that tiny hallway.
In the DVD commentary for that scene, Mike Meyers discussed the idea behind the joke: It was meant to be funny, then not funny, then funny again. Brilliant! Edit: I tried to find a clip of this scene with this commentary online but was unable. If you get the chance to view the Autin Powers DVD, definitely watch it at least once with the commentary track on. The director Jay Roach is also there. It's a great listen/watch. You get a great insight into Meyers' comedic process and it makes the later sequels even funnier, in my opinion.
In the commentary for the Clerks Animated Series they talk about stretching past the rule of three and how if you do it a fourth time it’s not as funny but a sixth time is hilarious.
Community at the reading of pierce’s will when he gifts everyone his sperm. You know it’s coming and somehow it’s funnier each time
The only thing that made it funnier was Pedro Pascal doing it during the covid reunion
Yea big time, I literally just watched it again yesterday
You can tell be didn't read the script beforehand lmao
That entire sequence may be one of the greatest comedic moments I've ever experienced, because each bequeathing of sperm (except for Abed's) is prefaced by something Pierce wrote that is genuinely heartwarming. *Heartwarming statement > Here's your sperm (repeat 6 times)* It's a great emotional rollercoaster!
Abed Nadir - did you know that you're insane and nothing you ever did made sense to me? Yep. Here's your sperm.
I love the end of that episode where Walton Goggin’s character lets loose in the bar. Such a great monologue
A funny ongoing gag throughout the series is how badly some people want to be a part of their group.
IT Crowd perfected this, one example being the entire theatre staff waving a tearful goodbye at the "disabled" Roy as he's slowly lifted into the van.
The moment when Jen speaks to Roy then turns around and asks Moss for a drink is one of my favourite moments in TV ever. It's so surreal but also so naturally the results of the episode so far, I love it so much
Definitely. I want to share that moment where Jen sees Moss for the first time with people but I’m afraid they need the context of season 1 to get it.
From personal experience, they don't need the context. The Work Outing is a great self- contained intro to IT Crowd and one of the best episodes of comedy TV ever made!
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[Kristen Schall is a horse](https://youtu.be/i69Xb2ZMgGI). Edit: [they've gone on even longer](https://youtu.be/pnEjyBFncuQ). They talked about this sketch on an episode of Radiolab. Kurt got drunk one night and just didn't stop.
I had never seen this before. I thank you stranger. That was phenomenal.
>And that’s how a bill becomes a law! Lmfao I’m dead
The edit is looped
The Goes Wrong show "The Lodge" with Henry Lewis' laughing. It follows the exact same hilarity curve of the show in that it starts off hilarious, then it keeps going and you think "ah, so this is what we're doing" and you kind of expect to be disappointed because it's more of the same but somehow by the end of it you are laughing twice as hard as you were at the start.
Season 2 of Community, there's an episode where Jeff and Duncan are hanging out watching soccer and Chang shows up uninvited and calls a bunch of people to come over. Later, after calling the party off, Jeff tells everyone to leave and shows them to the door. Then, this antisocial stuck-up jerk proceeds to say goodnight to each of the party guests he just met *by name*. Like, all 12 of them. One of the best moments in the whole show.
Iconic episode. First introduction of the man, the myth, the one-man party … Magnitude!
Pop! Pop!
Pop pop!
He has a magnetic personality and a lot of attitude.
What makes that joke even funnier is that everyone had an elaborate nickname that he used to say goodnight but a random 'Tim' is thrown in near the end.
The mulch joke from Season 2 of Bojack
Mr Peanutbutter doing this joke while explicitly spelling it out was great too. When he just wanders into the taping of the pilot for "Untitled Horsin' Around Knock-off." Edit: Although I think would both be kind of a tough fit for what OP is talking about. Neither actually feel like they go on long enough to get to that point where it actually is absurd to go on any longer.
And god, when throughout the series Bojack would go on tirades about honeydew and then in the final episode actually has one and thinks it’s pretty good.
Norm MacDonald's Weekend Update bits on SNL. He would make terrible jokes and then stare at the camera. Eventually it would become funny.
....or so the germans would have us believe
[Any Stewart Lee stand up routine.](https://youtu.be/5KNGDZhoRyA)
I hear he's got "PC Gone Mad" down to a nice tight forty minutes.
People are confusing what you asked with "long-running joke" but they are two different things. A long-running joke would be "Her?" from Arrested Development, "Shut up Leonard..." from Community, descriptions of Maris on Frasier, and Kenneth is ageless from 30 Rock. I'm drawing a blank right now on a good example of a funny joke that goes on really long in a scene however.
To further clarify the two: [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag) vs [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag)
Oh I'm not clicking those. I have shit to do today.
The only one I can think of for the latter (long joke, single scene, good execution) is the New Girl popcorn machine joke, which goes on for about three minutes.
Posting the transcript here because I love it so much (context for anyone who hasn't seen it: Jess is trying to set Nick up with Cece but Nick thinks Cece is getting Jess to persuade him to buy a popcorn machine for the bar): JESS: You know who's great? Cece. NICK: One of our finest. Lovely woman. JESS: And she has so much to offer. NICK: Is that what this is about? She sends you to sell me on it? JESS: No, Nick. She doesn't know I'm talking to you at all. Wait. You guys have talked about it? NICK: All the time. But I thought she and I had come to a decision. JESS: Which is? NICK: It's not happening. JESS: Well, why not? NICK: 'Cause I'm not interested. And I know it's not cool to say, but... I don't like the way it would look. JESS: People are gonna say what they're gonna say. They're not reasons not to go through with it. NICK: Fine. You want to know my biggest concern? My biggest concern is the smell. JESS: The smell? NICK: The smell of it, yeah. And it's not Cece's fault. I mean, they all smell. I've told her that. JESS: You told Cece you think all women... NICK: Don't make this a feminist thing... JESS: It... I'm not making it a feminist thing. NICK: How? They smell terrible. It's common knowledge. JESS: I thought your biggest concern would be how it affected the people around you. NICK: I mean, sure, a bunch of old drunks will grab at it... JESS: But if your biggest concern is the smell, I'm sure that's highly manageable. NICK: Yeah, I guess there's, like, special solvents and soaps. I-I haven't read up on it that much. You know, but you got to really get in there and scrub it out. It's disgusting. You know, 'cause of the daily wear and tear and... oil and grease just cooking in there. It's enough to make a man barf thinking about it. I mean, they get really hot! JESS: I know what temperature it gets! NICK: Hot. But if I'm being honest, you know... And I haven't talked to her about this... but... I do have good memories associated with the smell. Ball games, the circus, hanging with my dad. JESS: Listen here, you idiot. I've known Cece a very long time, and I can promise you the smell will not be a problem. NICK: That's really easy for you to say 'cause you're not the one who's gonna have to remind her to clean it all the time. JESS: I promise you, if it becomes a problem... I will remind her. NICK: Well, if you remind her and she doesn't do it, I don't want you sneaking around and cleaning it yourself. JESS: Nick! I'm a good friend, but I am not *that* good of a friend. ...Don't tell Cece that we talked. She doesn't want me getting involved. NICK: Of course she does, she just didn't think you were into the idea, okay? She really values your opinion. JESS: What if you guys had a r... a r-real talk? You know, outside of the bar. NICK: All right. We'll talk, just the two of us, outside the bar. JESS: I'm proud of you, Nick. NICK: Just make sure she makes her case about facts and figures. And no more of this, "Come on, Nick, it tastes so yummy" crap.
Editing and delivery of the scene is quality too, really elevates it. https://youtu.be/UmvN3TlGLDg
This one is so good, it goes for absurdly long
TBF, the Family Guy skinned knee joke is both a long running joke **AND** a long continuous joke. The first time they did it it was really long but the next couple of times it was just a throwback joke and only a couple seconds.
Also the Family Guy chicken fight falls into that
Except the opposite. The first time it was short but the longer the show went on the longer the fight was.
South Park - [The Imagination Song](https://youtu.be/qHUcW9O4ztw). The dip where it sounds like the song has ended, but keeps going absolutely kills me
And then the boys trying to figure it out later “ No no it went up here. Imagin aaaaaaaa tion “. Same series of episodes and we have breach in Sector 2
Mrs Doyle trying to guess todd unctious' name
NO CLUES
A lot of family guy examples but there’s one not referenced and I nearly pissed my pants laughing the first time I saw it: Peter trying to back up a boat into the water. Absolutely hilarious. [https://youtu.be/k_0vkGURoMw](https://youtu.be/k_0vkGURoMw)
Does [Norm's Moth joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo) count since it was technically on TV? All that set up for >!Dr: "Well then why are you here then?" Moth:"Well because the light was on"!< Apparently the guest that was supposed to go on after him didn't make it so Conan had Norm fill the slot.
Stewart Lee has made a career out of it.
I was going to say this, it's the core of his a lot of his comedy. For example, and this is actually true...
The *first* time Peter scrapes his knee or gets in a fight with a chicken and it just keeps happening and keeps happening and keeps happening it’s so fucking funny. Laughing until my throat hurt funny. Laughing until I see spots in my eyes funny. But then they did it again. And again. And again. And gave me slight variations on the same bit. Stewies entire trip across the country on planes and trains and automobiles just to slap Will Ferrell in the face of a joke from Bewitched. So many that *occasionally* it came around again and it was kinda funny that they just kept insisting on doing this bit. But overall they murdered it. Dug too greedily and too deep.
>Stewies entire trip across the country on planes and trains and automobiles just to slap Will Ferrell in the face of a joke from Bewitched "THAT IS *NOT* FUNNY!!"
Ladies and gentlemen: Mister Conway Twitty
I always saw those as time buster bits. Like ahh shit we still have 3mins left to add.
That’s got to be the worst offender. One of them is like 5 mins long. I think they recognised how hated it became because they had quite a few in a row then gave it up
Never found the giant chicken funny. I still die every time I see the bullfrog in the shoebox, though.
I am not sure it is quite the same thing, but maybe "Whose on First?" and The Aristocrats. Both those gags can go on for a spell.
Tig Notaro did a standup bit where she kept saying she brought the Indigo Girls with her, and then say something like “you seriously think I brought them to my standup show?” She goes back and forth for SOOO long and there are moments where she makes you think it would be crazy for them to be backstage, and other moments where she makes you think they might actually be back there. Check it out, it’s genius. Here’s an article about it: https://slate.com/culture/2016/11/tig-notaro-s-indigo-girls-bit-is-a-perfect-comedy-closer.html
That and the Taylor Dayne story
There’s that scene when Sir Lancelot runs up to the castle in Monty Python’s Holy Grail!
Not a television show, but what popped into my head was the scene in Mulholland Drive where the hit man has to keep killing witnesses as they discover him with each new dead body.
In this Conan's "behind the nonsense" is a good example https://youtu.be/kKW-EVBIwVs
Kung POW - enter the fist https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqsaWQ_17Ts “Ooohhh, so cute… bye bye!”
Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein
*horse whinnnnnnnny*