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gag and originated
The term “
gag rule ”
originated in the mid-1830s when
the U
. S
. House of Representatives barred discussion or referral
to committee of antislavery petitions
.

This
gag originated with Sid Krofft
, who had used
a similar device on
The Brady Bunch Hour ; on each episode
, Greg would push Peter into
the swimming pool
.
The chalkboard
gag for
the episode
, which is an
" apology
" for
the song
in " A Streetcar Named Marge
" This episode
originated when Al Jean commented
to Mike Reiss
, " We had
a lot of luck with Homer stealing cable
, which was based on
the eighth commandment
, so maybe we could look
to other commandments
.

However
, the most popular running
gag of
the beach party series is
" The Himalayan Suspender
" technique
, originated by Professor Sutwell
in Beach Party
, in which the forefinger is pressed against
a certain part of
the skull
, rendering
the victim paralyzed
.
gag and sketch

At
the end of
a sketch, they would
" poll
" the public
( another cast member playing an anonymous Canadian
) and give its results
, the gag being that only one person was polled
in the survey
( and thus one leader would get 100 % of
the votes
, but on one occasion
the person abstained ).

They toned
the gag down after 1941
, though they kept it going often enough as
the years continued
, climaxing on Allen's May 26
, 1946 show
, in which a sketch called
" King for
a Day ," satirizing big-money
game shows
, featured Benny pretending
to be
a contestant named Myron Proudfoot on Allen's new quiz show
.

In spite of being designed as
a sketch comedy television program
, the series is set
in a fictional universe
in which it also is broadcast as
a popular television comedy as evidenced through staged mishaps with members of
the viewing audience and performers featured
the program and comedic sub-plots involving Amanda's unhealthily obsessed
, nerdy
, feckless self-proclaimed
" Number One Fan
" Penelope Tate
, who has prioritized devising schemes that will assist her
in achieving her lifelong goal of meeting Amanda before all else and her multiple failed attempts
at landing
a meeting with
the hostess of
the series
( as
a gag, Amanda Bynes actually portrays Penelope
in reality and
the pair are never shown onscreen together ).

As
a running
gag, the Pythons would frequently insert
" Ann Haydon-Jones and her husband Pip
" into any
sketch where
a list of names was being read off
.
The two brought different skills
to the company ; Barbera was
a skilled
gag writer and
sketch artist
, while Hanna had
a gift for timing
, story construction
, and recruiting top artists
.

Another running
gag not featured
in the fictional show
, but would be part of its introduction
, would be
a sketch in which Herring naively complains about
a recent report
in the media
, only for Lee
to try
to correct
him before realizing
the best way
to make
him understand better is showing
him " An educational film for
the under fives
" he taped from cable TV
.

This
sketch made
a reappearance as
a recurring
gag in Touch Me
, I'm Karen Taylor
.

* Visual
gag, a comedian's term for
a joke
, a comedic
sketch or routine
, or
the visible effect of
a magical illusion

", cast member Charles Rocket was
" shot
" in the last
sketch of
the episode
, after
a running
gag in which other members of
the cast shared their grievances about Rocket with one
another.

A brilliant director of feature films
, Coppola turns out
to be an incompetent TV director
, resulting
in a running
gag in which each
sketch is ruined
in various ways
by Coppola's bumbling
.
The show's title — and
a basic summary of its premise — had previously appeared as
a one-time
gag in a " Wake of
the Week
" sketch on CODCO
.
The American circus term for
a clown's act is
" gag "; Europeans refer
to it as an
" entrée ", and amateur clowns sometimes refer
to it as
a " skit
" or
" sketch ".

A fat
, jolly-looking
man ( played by David Barber
) who formed
a running
gag during
the original show — for no apparent reason he would walk into
the middle of
a sketch, hand something
to a character
( usually appropriate
to the situation ), be told
" Thank you Fat Bloke!

") Another recurring
gag involves rubber chickens being thrown
at Svengoolie after
a cornier-than-usual joke — usually
at the end of each episode's closing
sketch.

A running
gag is that sometimes what appears
to be
a short phrase spoken
by the cast appears
to have an extremely long translation
( the entire
sketch is done with subtitles ), or vice versa
.
gag and which

A
" gag " is
a very short piece of clown comedy
which when repeated within
a bit or routine may become
a " running
gag ".
The 1987 movie Robocop while
in no way presented as fact
, does include several fake television ads
which have nothing
to do with
the rest of
the movie but become
a running
gag.

He also led
the fight against
the gag rule
, which prevented congress from hearing anti-slavery petitions
.

Excellence
in the fields of newspaper strips
, newspaper panels
, TV animation
, feature animation
, newspaper illustration
, gag cartoons
, book illustration
, greeting cards
, comic books
, magazine feature / magazine illustration and editorial cartoons
, is honored
in the NCS Division Awards
, which are chosen
by specially-convened juries
at the chapter level
.

* In
the Garfield comic strip and television series
, there is
a running
gag about
a " splut ,"
which is usually
the sound of
a pie hitting someone
in the face
.
" The joke was sometimes combined with
another running
gag in which, rather than having
a sign language interpreter visually presenting
the news
to aid
the deaf
, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris
, " head of
the New York School for
the Hard of Hearing ", whose
" aid
" involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting
the news as Chase read it
.

Zeppo figures
in a well-known
gag in which Groucho dictates
a letter
to his lawyers
in rambling pseudo-legalese
.
The House passed
the Pinckney Resolutions on May 26
, 1836
, the third of
which was known from
the beginning as
the " gag rule
" and passed with
a vote of 117
to 68
( The first stated that Congress had no constitutional authority
to interfere with slavery
in the states and
the second that it
" ought not
" do so
in the District of Columbia
.

He also occasionally drinks
to excess and has
a gambling problem
, which leads
to the second
gag: every
time Parker
tries to profit from gambling on events he recalls from
the future
, he
picks the losing side
( the lone exception
to this is when he gambles
to get
a bankroll for
a charitable purpose ).
The gag shorts
, which lasted 90 seconds each
, were shown with
the following umbrella titles
:

However
, this began
a running
gag on
the show
in which he would apologize
to one town and make several jokes
at the expense of
another town named Canton
then repeat
the cycle
a week later
.

Along
the way
, the duo launched
the temporary running
gag that made them near-irrevocable radio stars
: the famous hunt for Gracie's
" lost brother ,"
which began on January 4
, 1933 and eventually became
a cross-network phenomenon --- Gracie was also liable
to turn
up on other shows
( especially those produced
by the J
. Walter
Thompson advertising agency
, which produced
the Burns & Allen series
) looking for her brother
.

Bad publicity after
a bid
by NBC
to squelch
the stunt --- and an accidental mention
by Rudy Vallee on his Fleischmann's Hour --- helped
the stunt continue
, according
to radio historian John Dunning's On
the Air
: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
, which also mentioned that Gracie's real brother
, a " publicity-shy accountant
" living
in San Francisco
, went into hiding until
the gag ran its course
.

A common
gag had Archie always mispronouncing his minister's name as
the " Reverend Fletcher
" and being corrected
, " Feltcher ,"
to which Archie's answer would invariably be
" whatever
.

In Episode 115
, Fozzie constantly annoys Kermit with
a running
gag, delivering
a number of pun items
, such as
a " wire
" and
a " letter
" for Kermit
the Frog
which turned out
to be
a clothes wire and
the letter R
, respectively
.

This led
to the creation of Modeste et Pompon
, a gag series
which included contributions from René Goscinny
( of Astérix fame
) and Peyo
.

This is
the subject of numerous running gags
in I ’ m Alan Partridge
, in particular his numerous efforts
to deny his interest
in Bangkok
" lady-boys
" ( whom he describes as ‘ fascinating creatures ’ whilst insisting that he is merely confused
by them and not attracted
to them
) and
a recurrent
gag in which he will daydream about performing an erotic dance
in a peephole Pringle jumper and
a vulcanised rubber thong for
a selection of men
( usually those
who can help further his career
in some way
, such as BBC Chief of Programming Tony Hayers ).

Because gifts of value would mark social status contrary
to the spirit of
the season
, these were often
the pottery or wax figurines called sigillaria made specially for
the day
, candles
, or
" gag gifts ", of
which Augustus was particularly fond
.

This message
, which changes from episode
to episode
, has become known as
the " chalkboard
gag ".
The other
gag is known as
a " couch
gag ",
in which a twist of events occur when
the family meets
to sit on their couch and watch television
.

As
a running
gag, one of
the other character would ask Rags what
the " T
" stood for
, to which he'd reply
, " Larry
.
gag and Scott

A running
gag in the show
, for example
, is that whenever
a character exclaims
, " Great
Scott!
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