I was listening to an interview with a writer on the car radio this morning, and he said that the biggest writing challenge ever is to come up with a funny line that only takes three words. The humour can be in any format you like so long as it is amusing without any kind of explanation, background or context (the example he came up with was "Hip! Hip! Replacement!").

Can anyone think of any three-word funnies?

long John Wearer?

Tory party leader?

Lewes, squirrel fancier.

"football's coming home" is currently a joke

and if there were any justice in the world

"infamy infamy they'veallgotitinforme"

would be a 3 word joke

Efficiant call centre?

electrical extended warranty

Barry Scott, actor.

English call centre.

Nick Leeson, Entrepeneur.

Ronald Macdonald, vegetarian.

The Production Team.

ahem!

Touching The Void?

Adman posts reply

(only joking mate)

Going back to the original: (Hip Hip Replacement)

Hip - who? Ray?




Time for bed.

who is ray?

quote:

Time for bed.

agreed

Who is Ray?

Exactly. And why cheer him...

Okay. So. Perhaps that joke would work better (or even at all) if they was topically a person called Ray to whom I could pretend to be referring...

have we proved 3 words isn't enough to be funny? in which case how many do you need?

hors d'oevres that must be obeyed is a contender for the funniest line ever uttered, and it's only 6 words. how about we make it 6?