# Did Friends invent the "Could you BE any more \_\_\_"? sarcastic inflection pattern?

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**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-friends-invent-the-could-you-be-any-more-___-sarcastic-inflection-pattern/851283 "2020-04-07T16:56:52Z")
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### Author: ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-friends-invent-the-could-you-be-any-more-___-sarcastic-inflection-pattern/851283/11 "2020-04-08T22:07:23Z")

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Have people listened to this SNL sketch from 1998 with Matthew Perry teaching a course on sarcasm?:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_ZW-AZ2mNeA/maxresdefault.jpg "Sarcasm 101 - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZW-AZ2mNeA)

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