Play On Words: Take off. It not only features the double entendre, it...completes the cliche with a bizarre inference. It implies more than what is explicitly stated. It's the opposite of the Simple Truth. The Cliche can other start the joke, or be the punch line. Example: If at first you don't succeed, you're fired! Helitzer, Comedy Writing Secrets |
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Dentist: I'm sorry, madam, but I'll have to charge you twenty-five dollars for pulling your son's tooth. Mother: Twenty-five dollars! But I thought you only charged five dollars for an extraction. Dentist: I usually do. But your son yelled so loud, he scared four other patients out of the office.
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