gags
Comedian's quick bits
Gags are jokes, pranks, or comic bits—anything meant to provoke laughter.
A gag can be a visual stunt, a one-liner, or an elaborate practical joke: The movie is packed with sight gags.
A running gag recurs throughout a performance.
Separately, gags are devices placed in the mouth to prevent speech or screaming, and to gag is to retch or choke: The smell made me gag.
Humor's final delivery
- one-linerBrief standalone joke
- quipBrief, clever remark
- wisecrackFlippant clever remark
- jestHumorous remark or act
jape · pratfall · callback · setup · timing · delivery · slapstick · deadpan
Animal's nose area
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- censorOne who suppresses content
- suppressForcibly put an end to
- muffleDeaden or suppress sound
stifle · hush · squelch · bind · tape · cloth · bandana · ballgag
punchline
Humor's final delivery
jest · jape · pratfall · callback · setup · timing · delivery · slapstick · deadpan · absurdist
muzzle
Animal's nose area
muffle · stifle · hush · squelch · bind · tape · cloth · bandana · ballgag · bondage
retch
Gag involuntarily
queasy · dry-heave · sputter · cough · splutter · throat · swallow · suppress · involuntary · sensation
trick
Deliberate deception
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- stuntDangerous feat for spectacle
- gotchaExclamation upon catching someone
setup · victim · prankster · surprise · reaction · fooled · duped · candid
- humorjoke, jokes, joking, comedy, comic
- comedy writingjoke, jokes, comedy, satire, parody
- fooling aroundjoking, kidding, jesting, fooling, teasing
- Types of Humorsilliness, funniness, wittiness, corniness, zaniness
- bondage gearhandcuffs, collar, cuffs, blindfold, restraints
- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
gagstragedies
Dramas with fatal endings
eulogies · dramatic narratives · tearjerkers · epics · pathos
gagsmegaphones
Portable voice amplifiers
bullhorns · free speech · unmuzzling · microphones · amplifiers
- running gagRepeated joke across episodes
- gag orderCourt-imposed speech restriction
- gag giftHumorous present, not serious
- gag reflexThroat's protective contraction
- gag reelCompiled filming mistakes
- gone along with the gagParticipated in a ruse