One-liner joke
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A one-liner is a joke that takes to its heart the principle that brevity is the soul of wit. A one-liner, in the strictest sense, is a joke that is delivered in a single line.
Examples
- "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
- "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
- "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."
- Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn
- 90% of all statistics are made up.
- Anonymous
- "If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream."
- Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
- Anonymous
- Too much sarcasm becomes non-sarcasm.
- Anonymous
- We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.
- Anonymous
- "Take my wife. Please."
- Henny Youngman -known as the "King of the One-Liner."
- It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
- A Jack Handey "Deep Thought"
- "Politicians are like bananas: they start off green, then they turn yellow, then they become rotten."
- Anonymous
- You're winner!
- From computer game called Big rigs: Over the road racing
- "There are three kinds of people; those who can count and those who cannot."
- Anonymous
- "Never date a tennis player; to them love means nothing."
- Anonymous