Comedy Tropes
Basic Information
Comedy tropes are genre tropes that frequently appear in comedy shows.
List of Comedy Tropes
- Acceptable Targets
- Accidental Athlete
- Acid Reflux Nightmare
- Acquired Situational Narcissism
- Actually Pretty Funny
- Adam Westing
- Adults Are Useless
- Air Hugging
- Alien Lunch
- Aliens Steal Cattle
- All Girls Want Bad Boys
- All Guys Want Cheerleaders
- And The Winner Is
- And Zoidberg
- Animal Reaction Shot
- Antiquated Linguistics
- Anyone Remember Pogs
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
- Aside Glance
- Asymmetric Dilemma
- At Arms Length
- The B Grade
- Back To School
- Bait And Switch
- Bachelor Auction
- Banana Peel
- Bannister Slide
- Bested At Bowling
- Best Out Of Infinity
- Biting The Hand Humor
- Bizarre And Improbable Golf Game
- Blind Without 'Em
- Bloody Hilarious
- A Bloody Mess
- Black Comedy
- Bread Eggs Milk Squick
- Break The Motivational Speaker
- Breathless Non Sequitur
- Brick Joke
- British Stuffiness
- Brutal Honesty
- Bucket Booby Trap
- Bucket Of Ears
- Burger Fool
- By Wall That Is Holey
- Calvinball
- Can't Get Away With Nuthin'
- Can't You Read the Sign?
- Caught With Your Pants Down
- Ceiling Banger
- Centipede's Dilemma
- Chained To A Bed
- Chain Letter
- Cheshire Cat Grin
- Chirping Crickets
- Church Of Tropology
- Citizenship Marriage
- Closet Shuffle
- Clown Car Base
- Coincidental Accidental Disguise
- Comeback Tomorrow
- Comedic Sociopathy
- Coming Of Age Story
- Completely Missing The Point
- Confession Deferred
- Confusing Multiple Negatives
- Corridor Chase
- Covered In Gunge (aka Covered In Slime, Cream Pie In The Face)
- Crazy Prepared
- Crosses The Line Twice
- Crossover Punchline
- The Couch
- Could Say It But
- Counter Zany
- Cue The Flying Pigs
- Cute But Cacophonic
- Date Peepers
- Dead Baby Comedy
- Deep Immersion Gaming
- Defenestrate And Berate
- Delayed Reaction
- Delegation Relay
- Department Of Redundancy Department
- Description Cut
- Did A Korean Person Die
- Did Not Eat The Mousse
- Different For Girls
- Disaster Dominoes
- Discriminate And Switch
- Dish Dash
- Dismotivation
- Dissimile
- Distant Reaction Shot
- Distracted By The Sexy
- Does This Remind You Of Anything
- Dog Walks You
- Dont Explain The Joke
- Doom It Yourself
- Door Focus
- Double Entendre
- Double Take
- Dresses The Same
- Drives Like Crazy
- Dropped A Bridget On Him
- Drop The Cow
- Drop What You Are Doing
- Dude Wheres Our Car
- Easy Come Easy Go
- Eek! A Mouse!
- Elephant In The Living Room
- Embarrassing Cover Up
- Embarrassing Slide
- Embarrassing Tattoo
- Escalating War
- The European Carry All
- Even The Dog Is Ashamed
- Everything Back To Normal
- Everything's Better With Monkeys
- Exiled To The Couch
- Exploding Closet
- Expospeak Gag
- Face Doodling
- Failed A Spot Check
- The Family For The Whole Family
- Fantasy Twist
- Fee Fi Faux Pas
- Feng Schwing
- Le Film Artistique
- Filth
- Finagle's Law
- Hanlon's Razor
- Fish Out Of Temporal Water
- Flashback Cut
- Food Fight
- Forgot I Could Fly
- For Inconvenience Press One
- Freudian Slip
- From The Mouths Of Babes
- Fruit Of The Loon
- The Fun In Funeral
- Fun With Foreign Languages
- Funny Foreigner
- Funny Money
- Gag Words
- Gallows Humor
- Gargle Blaster
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man
- Ghost In The Machine
- Gilligan Cut
- Girls Have Cooties
- Global Ignorance
- Good Angel Bad Angel
- Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
- Grave Humor
- Gravity Is A Harsh Seamstress
- Groin Attack
- Hadaka Apron
- Hand Off
- Hands Go Down
- Henway
- Hilarious Outtakes
- Hilarity Sues
- Hint Dropping
- Hit Me, Dammit!
- Hollywood Dateless
- Homemade Inventions
- Home Porn Movie
- House Amnesia
- How Did That Get In There?
- How Much Did You Hear?
- Hurricane Of Euphemisms
- Hurricane Of Puns
- I Broke A Nail
- I Can Explain
- Idiot Ball
- If I Were A Rich Man
- If You Know What I Mean
- I Have This Friend
- I Know You Know I Know
- Imagine Spot
- I Meant To Do That
- I'm Mr Future Pop Culture Reference
- Immune To Drugs
- Impersonation Paradox
- Incredibly Lazy Pun
- Indulgent Fantasy Segue
- Inherently Funny Words
- Innocent Innuendo
- Insistent Terminology
- I Resemble That Remark
- Ironic Echo Cut
- I See London
- I Sophagus
- I Take Offense To That Last One
- It Came From The Fridge
- It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY
- It's A Costume Party I Swear
- It's The Best Trope Ever
- It's The Principle Of The Thing
- It Tastes Like Feet
- I Was Just Joking
- Kent Brockman News
- Kitchen Sink Included
- Lampshade Wearing
- Larynx Dissonance
- Last Second Word Swap
- Laugh Track
- Law Of Disproportionate Response
- Leaving Audience
- Le Film Artistique
- Line Of Sight Name
- Literal Metaphor
- Little Kid Lover
- Little Known Facts
- Living In A Furniture Store
- The Long List
- Long Speech Tea Time
- Lost Wedding Ring
- Ma'am
- Made Of Explodium
- Mall Santa
- Marx Brothers
- Matchmaker Dot Com
- Mattress Tag Gag
- MD Envy
- Metaphorgotten
- McNinja
- Minor Injury Overreaction
- Mirror Routine
- Missed Him By That Much
- Missing The Good Stuff
- Mister Seahorse
- Mobile Shrubbery
- Mobile Suit Human
- Most Common Card Game
- Most Definitely Not A Villain
- Motorcycle Dominoes
- Musicalis Interruptus
- My Favorite Shirt
- My New Gift Is Lame
- Naked People Are Funny
- Never Work With Children Or Animals
- New Job Episode
- The Niles
- No More For Me
- Nonverbal Miscommunication
- Noodle Incident
- Not My Lucky Day
- Not So Above It All
- Not So Great Escape
- Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
- Now You Tell Me
- No You Hang Up First
- Nuclear Family
- Offscreen Crash
- Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
- On Second Thought
- Once An Episode
- Once More With Volume
- One Scene Two Monologues
- Only Sane Man
- Orphaned Punchline
- Oven Logic
- Overly Long Gag
- Overly Long Name
- Overused Running Gag
- Pass The Popcorn
- Passing Judgment
- Percussive Prevention
- Pet Heir
- Pet The Dog
- Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity
- Picture Day
- Pie In The Face
- Pif Paf Pof
- Please Dump Me
- Politeness Judo
- Porky Pig Pronunciation
- Potty Emergency
- Powder Gag
- Practical Joke
- Prank Date
- Premature Aggravation
- Pretty Fly For A White Guy
- Produce Pelting
- Proportional Article Importance
- Punchline
- Punch Punch Punch Uh Oh
- Punctuated Pounding
- Rant Inducing Slight
- Reactive Continuous Scream
- Record Needle Scratch
- Redundant Romance Attempt
- Reflexive Response
- Refuge In Vulgarity
- Repeat After Me
- Retroactive Wish
- Ridiculous Future Inflation
- Right Behind Me
- Right In Front Of Me
- Right On Queue
- Road Apples
- Roadside Wave
- Rubber Face
- Rule Of Three
- Running Gag
- The Runt At The End
- The Scream
- Screams Like A Little Girl
- Screwball Serum
- Seinfeldian Conversation
- Self Deprecation
- Self Offense
- Seven Minute Lull
- Shaped Like Itself
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays
- Shrug Take
- Side Bet
- The Simpsons Did It
- Sit Comic
- Skippy Rules
- Slapstick
- Slippery Skid
- Smith Will Suffice
- Sneeze Of Doom
- Snipe Hunt
- Social Services Does Not Exist
- Somebody Else's Problem
- Spit Take
- Springtime For Hitler
- Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond
- Standardized Sitcom Housing
- Start My Own
- Stereo Fibbing
- Stereotype Reaction Gag
- Stock Underwear
- Straight Man
- Strip Poker
- Stupid Sexy Flanders!
- Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
- Subways Suck
- Such A Phony
- Sue Donym
- Sugar Apocalypse
- Switching To GEICO
- Tabloid Melodrama
- Take A Number
- Talking In Bed
- That Came Out Wrong
- That Was Objectionable
- The Exit Is That Way
- The Loins Sleep Tonight
- There Was A Door
- The Take
- The Talk
- This Trope Is Bleep
- Throw It In
- Tom Hanks Syndrome
- Too Fast To Stop
- Toilet Humour
- Too Much Information
- Too Spicy For Yog Sothoth
- Top Ten List
- Tough Room
- Transparent Closet
- Trash Of The Titans
- Tree Buchet
- Trick Dialogue
- Tropaholics Anonymous
- The Trouble With Tickets
- Truth Telling Session
- Trust Building Blunder
- Twin Switch
- Ugly Guy Hot Wife
- Unfunny
- Unpronounceable Alias
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist
- Unusual Euphemism
- Urine Trouble
- Vetinari Paradox
- Villains Out Shopping
- Visual Pun
- The Vodka Is Good But The Meat Is Rotten
- Vomit Chain Reaction
- Wacky Cravings
- Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
- Wacky Marriage Proposal
- Wacky Racing
- Wafer Thin Mint
- We ARE Struggling Together
- Weekend At Bernies
- We Haven't Learned Anything Yet
- Weird Trade Union
- Well This Is Not That Trope
- We Need A Distraction
- We Sell Everything
- What?
- What's My Line
- White Dude Black Dude
- Who Would Want To Watch Us?
- What Are Records?
- Who's On First
- The Window Or The Stairs
- Wiper Start
- Wondrous Ladies Room
- Won't Take Yes For An Answer
- Worth It
- Yawn And Reach
- You Are A Tree Charlie Brown
- You Get Me Coffee
- Your Other Left
See Also
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Game and Story Use
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