It was only one joke - a very posh guy is talking about going to school with someone, and how he was a good chap or something, then followed up with “buggered me senseless…”
The Alan Bennett one was a schoolmaster telling a boy that his private parts are called private because they are his and his alone - then saying “doesn’t apply to me, boy, doesn’t apply to me.”
Gone: Plot information suddenly reveled by purchasing a newspaper from a paperboy running around crying “Extra”
Going: Plot information reveled by any sort of dead-tree newspapers.
It’s been so long that I don’t know if it was ever used as a dramatic device, but someone being hit by a falling piano dropped by movers is surely a cliche.
Maybe when newspapers are as rare as Edison cylinders this will be the case but it seems to me that a character picking up and reading a newspaper conveys a more clear meaning to a viewer and is also more visually interesting than them logging on to their computer/phone/whutever.
Tough guy hero gets shot in the left shoulder but carrys on more or less unaffected.
Hero and heroine running (usually through woods) away from the bad guys, heroine stumbles and twists her ankle.
Gangster gets fatally shot and either keeps pulling the trigger on his submachine gun but can’t raise it to the horizontal, or if in a car falls forward onto the horn button and sounds it continuously but accidently,though dying.
Bad guy starts saying “You son of a …” to the hero but is knocked out by the hero before he can say bitch.(Which stops the movie makers falling foul of the censors)