knee slapper
11thigh-slapper — noun A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous. Not exactly a thigh slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either. Syn: knee slapper …
12thigh-slapper — noun Date: 1965 knee slapper …
13joke — 1. noun 1) they were telling jokes Syn: funny story, jest, witticism, quip; pun, play on words; informal gag, wisecrack, crack, one liner, rib tickler, knee slapper, thigh slapper, punch line, groaner 2) playing stupid …
14scream — v 1. shriek, screech, screak, squeal, shrill, stridulate, Scot, and North Eng. skirl; cry out, sing out, pipe up; cry, wail, squall, yowl, squawk, yelp, bay, caterwaul, ululate. 2. roar, howl, hoot and howl, laugh one s head off, laugh until… …
15Eating crow — on a Wager Artist: Thomas Worth Currier Ives (1883) Eating crow is a U.S. colloquial idiom,[1] meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness …
16Charley Weaver's Hobby Lobby — Also known as Hobby Lobby, The Charley Weaver Show Genre Interview/variety Created by Allan Sherman Written by Cliff Arquette Harvey Bullock …
17Cliff Nazarro — was a popular double talk comedian of the 1930s and 1940s who appeared in movies such as Hillbilly Blitzkrieg as Barney Google.[1] References ^ Tim Hollis (2008), Ain t that a knee slapper: rural comedy in the twentieth century, University Press… …
18Opie Cates — (10 October 1909, Arkansas, USA – 6 November 1987, Oklahoma, USA)[1][2] was an American clarinet player and band leader in the 1930s and 1940s, during the swing era, who became a radio actor. Cates was born Opal Taft Cates, the son of a farmer in …
19farce — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. buffoonery, burlesque, travesty; mockery, fiasco. See wit, drama. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Broad comedy] Syn. travesty, burlesque, low comedy, slapstick; see comedy , parody . 2. [Something absurd or… …
20joke — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. jest, gag, wisecrack, witticism, bon mot; fooling, kidding, joshing. v. i. josh, jest, gag. See wit. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An action intended to be funny] Syn. prank, buffoonery, game, sport, frolic …
