Sgt. Schultz: I know nothing.
Stewart Lee tackles this rather neatly (and of course pokes fun at his own style of delivery as he does so)
I have now discovered that the way my family and many other Spanish families serve meals is “Russian style” and considered highly formal, although generally in our case no servants are involved. I’m feeling terribly posh.
“Don’t call it that.”
exaggerated chicken strutting
D’oh!
I have no idea how well it is known in the US, but The Fast Show consisted almost entirely of repetitions (and I’m not sure I needed that “almost”).
For example the only thing that ever changed in a Jesse’s Diets sketch was the single specific detail of what he had been eating. Then there’s the many editions of Jazz Club with Louis Balfour - nice. And so on. And so on.
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From The Big Bang Theory - ‘That’s my spot.’
“But that would be wrong.”
Knockknockknock (insert name here)
Knockknockknock (insert name here)
Knockknockknock (insert name here)
NORM!!!
There was a comedian years ago, whose act when I saw it (on HBO) consisted of him pretending to channel his mother. He repeated the following, over and over, for the full duration of the time I watched him.
[ul][li]He was like a crazy person![/ul][/li][ul][li]You’ll put your eye out![/ul][/li][ul]We’re big pants people![/ul]Over and over and over.
If it was intended to become humorous thru repetition, it didn’t work.
Regards,
Shodan
I’d buy that for a dollar!
I’m not sure if the OP is asking for running gags per se, or simply for lines repeated for comedic effect. *Bull Durham *is full of the latter:
Crash: Timeout. [Walks to the mound] Hey! Why are you shaking me off? Huh?
Nuke: I want to bring the heater. Announce my presence with authority.
Crash: To announce your what?
Nuke: Announce my presence with authority!
Crash: To announce your fucking presence with authority?!
Skip: You guys…you lollygag the ball around the infield! You lollygag your way down to first! You lollygag in and out of the dugout! Do you know what that makes you? Larry?!
Larry: Lollygaggers!
Skip: Lollygaggers! What’s our record, Larry?
Larry: 8-16.
Skip: 8-16…How did we ever win eight?
Larry: It’s a miracle.
Skip: It’s a miracle.
The old show “Get Smart” had a plethora of “catch phrases”
Old time radio:
“Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga.”
“Say Goodnight, Gracie.”
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson had a number of great repeated (and repeated and repeated) gags such as Secretariat the Dancing Horse.
The Big Lebowski does something like this. Throughout the film, The Dude repeats words and phrases that we’ve heard other characters use earlier - but the extra gag is that he invariably uses them incorrectly.
Johnny Carson had some running gags such as Ed McMahon’s perceived love of beer or the number of Johnny’s marriages. One particular one was
(Johnny addresses audience): It was so hot in New York today.
(Audience): HOW HOT WAS IT?
Laugh-In used this as a stock-in-trade.
“Sock it to me.”
“is that a chicken joke?”
“Very interesting.”
“One ringy dingy. Two ringy dingies…”
“And that’s the truth. <Brrrrrrp>”
“Fickle finger of fate.”
“Beautiful downtown Burbank.”"
“Here comes the judge.”