Or the chicken battle.
Last Week Tonight has a few good ones:
Janice from Accounting
AT&T Business Daddy
Gay Marlon Bundo
Stupid Watergate
#Feminism
I could go on. And now, this…
Mr. Show was always great at this concept, but nowhere more so than the skit called The Story of Everest. I adore every second of every episode of Bob & David (for younger people, that’s Bob Odenkirk, before he was Saul Goodman, and David Cross) but The Story of Everest has me HOWLING every. single. time. No matter how many times I watch it, and how much I KNOW exactly what is going to happen every time, I still laugh my ass off.
Jay Johnson, one of the more minor supporting players of the regular cast, had a rare “lead” role in that sketch, and he absolutely knocked it out of the park.
That is one of Seth McFarland’s signature moves:
It’s not that funny for three seconds, but for three hundred?
The first time I saw it used was when a character (Alexander Graham Bell?) said “Well, I could certainly use a distraction. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty.” And they cut away to a vintage performance of the Pompadour of Love himself.
Here’s a perfect example. I dare you to watch the whole thing.
You think “Well, that was clever, I wonder what Lois is going to… wait, they’re not cutting back. It’s still Conway. [go to kitchen, get a beer] Well, this should be getting funny about now… [go to bathroom, dispose of beer] Oh, heck, might as well watch. Geez… It’s been, what, four minutes of Conway Frickin’ Twitty?!?”
The Pompadour of Love… just made that up.
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“Thank you, Thing.”
Lurch groaning
The decor of the Addams’s living room – the shark with the leg in it, etc.
Also, in every Teatime Movie bit, the audience was trained
go to the Slauson Cutoff and
Audience: Cut off your Slauson.
This was a joke where only one particular word was used repeatedly, but it was a great build up to a hilarious payoff (IMO… others may just groan.)
NewsRadio did an episode called “NewsRadio in Space” where the idea was that the episode took place on a space station instead of a radio station. So, throughout the episode, common objects are constantly prefixed with the word “space” – space pliers, space porn, etc. It becomes a running gag. Then later in the episode, Dave and Lisa are having a conversation about moving in together. Dave suggests she move in with him.
Lisa: I don’t want to move into your place. Besides, your apartment is always so cold.
Dave: Then I’ll buy a space heater.
Yep. That whole damned show. Even the running gags have running gags.
Check out OP. 
More Python - “Albatross!”
Don’t know if the above line was ever said( I think it was “a kind of” instead of “the”), but one of my favorite Jeopardy fails is this…The answer being — 5 word line that follows "I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition."The contestant buzzes in and triumphantly announces , (with arm raised and a sly know-it-all smile) “What is “no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!”” Alex just says “No”.
Her look goes from :cool: to :confused: in a hurry.It was said both ways, as this video will attest:
In the context of the show, I’m like 100% certain it’s intended to be funny. Deeply gallows humor, sure, mixed with horror, but the comedy was absolutely intended. You don’t write five minutes of “fuck” dialogue without giggling.
We were on a BREAK!
The Beverly Hillbillies had a lot of running gags
Granny and the Moonshine
Graduated the 6th grade
Ellie Mae is an old Maid
Cement Pond
Revenuers
Fancy Eating Room and the BILL-EEE-ARD table
Jethro and his massive appetite
Miss Jane and her crush on Jethro
“Some day I got to have a long talk with that boy”
Mr Drysdale try to keep his wife from the Clampetts
Ellie Mae and her love of animals (Cousin Bessie the Chimp)
Granny and her down home cooking
and many more
Didn’t watch the video, but in the context of the question it is clearly wrong.
Green Acres:
“Oliver!”
“Oh, fer…”
“You don’t have a __________?!?”
“Ze little plants shoosting up into ze sky…”
Mr Kimble’s rambling.
Ebb’s rambling.
Arnold the Pig grunting in seven languages.
Mr & Mrs Ziffel treating Arnold as their son.
Lisa’s cooking skills (or lack of them).
Ralph and Alf Monroe (one of whom was a woman).
The *remont *that was never completed.
The phone at the top of the pole.
The overloaded electrical system.
Her response was wrong because in all instances the line is “*Nobody *expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
“Nobody,” not “no one.” Anyway, “no one” would make it six words, not five.
I know…that is what my point is.
You have a point? 
guess not :rolleyes: