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At a time when dumb one-liners and tasteless jokes can be tossed off on TV and elsewhere as examples of wit without causing anyone to cringe, perhaps the moment has arrived to make some distinctions and straighten out the nomenclature among those terms that fall under the umbrella of eliciting laughter.
Professor Norrick might be offended to find a review of his book so closely associated with what he might consider to be trivial, but he does expend a great deal of text describing the various forms of humor--sorry, I cannot resist the punctuation-- that come from one-liners and clichés (many of which, after all, are quotations).
The most irksome aspects of Disney's $140 million spectacle: its jingoism, ear-splitting sound effects, trite one-liners, and unlikely premise--the planet's fate rests with redneck oil drillers.
They laud his intermingling of fiction and reality, his fresh one-liners, and the all-star ensemble cast (which includes Robin Williams, Demi Moore, and Kirstie Alley).
Puns are a common source of jokes, especially those that have come to be called one-liners.