[Freak_NL]

The ten best-voted one-liners from this year's Fringe are listed here:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/19/mark-s...

A couple follow that pattern exactly, but some also bank on taking words literally for comic effect.

> I love the Olympics. My friend and I invented a new type of relay baton. Well, he came up with the idea, I ran with it. (Mark Simmons)

[mewpmewp2]

But these are really not that funny. Specifically because you imagine that this is what you get if you bruteforce those combinations. If someone comes up on the spot with this and wants to share, sure it might be funny and clever, but if a professional comedian does jokes likes this, it seems plain and irrelevant. Just something that was bruteforced together.