Clichés for Comedy Writers to Avoid

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A list of comedy clichés to avoid, compiled by the writers of a popular television sitcom:

_\_? More like __.

Can you not?

I can explain!

Po-po-potato!

Let's not and say we did.

I didn't not ___.

Va-jay-jay

[Borat voice] My potato!

Wait for it . . .

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Really? You gave me a potato for our anniversary? Really?!

Good talk.

And by _\_, I mean __.

Bitch—potato.

Shut the front door!

Awkward!

Lady boner

Where'd you get all these potatoes?

Ruh-roh!

I think that came out wrong.

Well, well, well, tater-tater-masturbator—we've caught Josh jerking off!

Uh . . . define ___.

No? Just me?

Mashed like a potato on Thanksgiving

Why are we whispering?

That went well . . .

I've heard of potato eyes, but potato ears [nose, lips, etc.]?

Stay classy!

Real talk

Potato-potato

NailedIt

Random!

And that's why they call it hot potato!

Awesome sauce!

Little help?

Laughy McLaugherson

Spuds McKenzie

___ dot com

Oh helllll no!

EpicPotato

Did I just say that out loud?

Food baby

Russet, yellow, purple, blue—we're all potatoes here.

Soooo, that just happened.

SquadGoals

I just peed a little.

French fries are delicious but high in calories, so don't eat too many, kids!

Too soon?

Wait . . . you're not from Idaho?

Spoiler alert!!!

Um . . . in English, please.

Note to self: in England, they call fries "chips."

Life hack

Best. ___. Ever.

Worst. ___. Ever.

Potato. ___. Ever.

It's giving me all the feels.

Potato people

Well played.

Let's put another potato on the barbie!

Hard pass.

Calling a lazy person a "couch potato," but with tone of ironic detachment.

I'm right here!

Where my potatoes at?

Are you having a stroke?

Go sports!

Show me the potato!

Zero fucks given.

You had me at “potato.”

I absorbed my twin in the womb.

I'll take ___ for five hundred, Alex.

Are potato plants herbaceous perennials that grow to about sixty centimetres high? [Said by way of giving an affirmative to a question.]

Thanks, Obama.

Wait, what?

Shark Week

If this funeral buffet doesn't have potato salad, I will be PISSED.

Ri-don-ku-lous

Debbie Downer

TFW u think u found a sweet potato but it's just a yam :(

I can't un-see that.

Penelope Potato

See what I did there?

I'll show myself out.

Here's the line; here's you. Here's a potato. Don't take it! I saw that potato first.

___ on steroids/crack

Swipe right.

First-world problems

POTATO TIME!

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

Betty Crocker potatoes au gratin (4.7-oz. box)

That's why we can't have nice things.

And the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is . . . a potato clock (potato battery, potato barometer, etc.)???

I think we're done here.

Potato