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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' is the runaway winner for this trope in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, even if you throw in the Creator/{{Pixar}}, Creator/DisneyToonStudios, and [[Creator/BlueSkyStudios Blue Sky]] movies as challengers. There's a reason why ''Groove'' is an infinitely quotable FountainOfMemes, and why its [[Funny/TheEmperorsNewGroove Funny Moments Page]] is longer than the road to Kuzco's palace.
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* WebVideo/{{max0r}} uses hyperactive form of comedy where the amount of jokes he can make within 10 seconds is several. His videos also include a lot of Freeze Frame Bonuses.
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* ''WebAnimation/YoutubePoop'' is very, ''very'' prone to falling into this.

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* ''WebAnimation/YoutubePoop'' ''YoutubePoop'' is very, ''very'' prone to falling into this.
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** ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''Series/PoliceSquad'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
** ''Film/HotShots'' pretends to be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into ''Airplane!'' territory. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Written and directed by]] Creator/JimAbrahams.

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** ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''Series/PoliceSquad'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
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** ''Film/HotShots'' pretends to be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into ''Airplane!'' territory. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Written and directed by]] Creator/JimAbrahams.Jim Abrahams.

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** ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', more a series of fast-paced sketches than a proper narrative movie.

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** ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', more ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' is their earliest film, a SketchComedy based on their work at the Kentucky Fried Theater. It's a series of fast-paced sketches than a proper narrative movie.movie, high on parody and NoFourthWall humor.



** The ''Film/ScaryMovie'' series (at least the first two and the fifth; one of the Z's of ZAZ, David Zucker, handled the other two)

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** The first, second, and fifth films in the ''Film/ScaryMovie'' series (at least the first two and the fifth; one of the Z's of ZAZ, series. Notably, David Zucker, Zucker of ZAZ (see above) handled the other two)third and fourth films.
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* Creator/TexAvery pioneered this in animation, starting with his work on ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and then took it further at Creator/{{MGM}}. At Creator/WarnerBros the torch was carried by his acolyte Bob Clampett.

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* Creator/TexAvery pioneered this in animation, starting with his work on ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and then took it further at Creator/{{MGM}}. At Creator/WarnerBros the torch was carried by his acolyte Bob Clampett.Creator/BobClampett.

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* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is the gold-standard by which all other such works of this sort are judged. When the dialogue isn't being funny, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the action in the background is.]] This was in many ways when the team Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker perfected the technique.
* ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' shows that there's a reason that Deadpool is called the Merc with a Mouth. Deadpool cracks joke after joke, and seems to double down on the jokes after someone tries to get him to shut up.

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* It is not an understatement to say that Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker were renown for this.
** ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', more a series of fast-paced sketches than a proper narrative movie.
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''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is the gold-standard by which all other such works of this sort are judged. When the dialogue isn't being funny, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the action in the background is.]] This was in many ways when the team Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker perfected the technique.
* ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' shows that there's a reason that Deadpool is called the Merc with a Mouth. Deadpool cracks joke after joke, ** ''Film/BrainDonors'', produced by David and seems to double down on the Jerry Zucker as a {{Homage}} of ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''. The jokes after someone tries are as fast and unrelenting as anything from the ZAZ repertoire, peppered with the KarmicTrickster antics of the Creator/MarxBrothers.
** ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''Series/PoliceSquad'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
** ''Film/HotShots'' pretends
to get him to shut up.be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into ''Airplane!'' territory. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Written and directed by]] Creator/JimAbrahams.



* ''Film/BrainDonors'', produced by David and Jerry Zucker as a {{Homage}} of ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''. The jokes are as fast and unrelenting as anything from the ZAZ repertoire, peppered with the KarmicTrickster antics of the Creator/MarxBrothers.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''Series/PoliceSquad'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].

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* ''Film/BrainDonors'', produced by David ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' shows that there's a reason that Deadpool is called the Merc with a Mouth. Deadpool cracks joke after joke, and Jerry Zucker as a {{Homage}} of ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''. The seems to double down on the jokes are as fast and unrelenting as anything from the ZAZ repertoire, peppered with the KarmicTrickster antics of the Creator/MarxBrothers.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''Series/PoliceSquad'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
after someone tries to get him to shut up.



* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', more a series of fast-paced sketches than a proper narrative movie. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrams/Zucker.]]
* ''Film/HotShots'' pretends to be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into ''Airplane!'' territory. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Written and directed by]] Creator/JimAbrahams.



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/ ''Film/OneTwoThree'': good luck even trying to comprehend everything that's being said, let alone laugh at every joke...

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/ ''Film/OneTwoThree'': good luck even trying to comprehend everything that's being said, let alone laugh at every joke...
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* The title character of ''Film/Arthur1981'' is constantly cracking jokes in an attempt to amuse -- if no one else -- himself, being an adult LonelyRichKid and [[TheAlcoholic frequently drunk]]. He'd probably be dropping quips even faster if he weren't TheHyena as well. Tellingly the person he is closest to, his valet Hobson, is a ServileSnarker who expertly plays off of his whimsy with dry, down-to-earth comments, and the woman he falls in love with is a DeadpanSnarker.
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* ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos'' dropped in this trope. Even in the most educational sketches.

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* ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos'' dropped in fall into this trope. Even in the most educational sketches.
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* Most of the [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Wayans Brothers']] more wacky movies are like this.

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* Most of the [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Wayans Brothers']] Brothers' more wacky movies are like this.
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* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is notorious for the extremely high density of jokes. It isn't just a AffectionateParody of Shounen, it's a WorldOfHam taken UpToEleven, using a twisted Manzai humor with many non-sequiturs.

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* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is notorious for the extremely high density of jokes. It isn't just a AffectionateParody of Shounen, it's a WorldOfHam taken UpToEleven, to the next level, using a twisted Manzai humor with many non-sequiturs.



** ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'' crams all the tropes from every HoodFilm made up to that time and cranks them UpToEleven.

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** ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'' crams all the tropes from every HoodFilm made up to that time and cranks them UpToEleven.exaggerates them.



* The Creator/LouisSachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' lampshades this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.

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* The Creator/LouisSachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' lampshades this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.



* WebVideo/SsethTzeentach uses this type of comedy and many times brings this UpToEleven, to the point where many jokes are in FreezeFrameBonus territory.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'' has the official animated shorts ''Holo no Graffiti'' which are joke after joke involving the large cast in strange situations.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'' has the official animated shorts ''Holo ''[[WebAnimation/HololiveHoloNoGraffiti Holo no Graffiti'' Graffiti]]'' which are joke after joke involving the large cast in strange situations.
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* [=YouTube=] Poop videos are very, ''very'' prone to falling into this.

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* [=YouTube=] Poop videos are ''WebAnimation/YoutubePoop'' is very, ''very'' prone to falling into this.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'' has each episode essentially act like a condensed version of one of the original books, so there's plenty of scenes with jokes and gags. The [[StylisticSuck comic segments]] in particular emphasize this with their goofy narration.
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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''PoliceSquad!'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].

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* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''PoliceSquad!'' ''Series/PoliceSquad'' below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
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* ''Series/LaughIn'' lived on this trope.

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* %%%* ''Series/LaughIn'' lived on this trope.
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* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is notorious for the extremely high density of jokes. It isn't just a AffectionateParody of Shounen, it's a WorldOfHam taken UpToEleven, using a twisted Manzai humor with many non-sequiturs. Irritatingly, the pacing of the show is just as slow as the most-drawn out filler arcs of "real" shounen anime.

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* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is notorious for the extremely high density of jokes. It isn't just a AffectionateParody of Shounen, it's a WorldOfHam taken UpToEleven, using a twisted Manzai humor with many non-sequiturs. Irritatingly, the pacing of the show is just as slow as the most-drawn out filler arcs of "real" shounen anime.
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* The Creator/Louis Sachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' lampshades this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.

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* The Creator/Louis Sachar Creator/LouisSachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' lampshades this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.
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* The Creator/Louis Sachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' invokes this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.

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* The Creator/Louis Sachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' invokes lampshades this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.
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* The Louis Sachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' invokes this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.

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* The Louis Creator/Louis Sachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' invokes this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.
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* The Louis Sachar novel ''Dogs Don't Tell Jokes'' invokes this trope as the protagonist creates a standup comedy routine for his school's talent show, and then ramps it up to eleven as he ad-libs increasingly offbeat punch lines to one of his jokes during the show.

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%%* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is the gold-standard by which all other such works of this sort are judged. This was in many ways when the team Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker perfected the technique.

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%%* * ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is the gold-standard by which all other such works of this sort are judged. When the dialogue isn't being funny, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the action in the background is.]] This was in many ways when the team Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker perfected the technique.



%%* Most of the Wayans Brothers' more wacky movies are like this, especially the ''Film/ScaryMovie'' series (at least the first two and the fifth; one of the Z's of ZAZ, David Zucker, handled the other two), ''Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Sippin' Yo Juice in da Hood''
* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'': The film features a long string of gags, usually several per scene with a quick change to the next scene and more gags.
%%* This trope was standard operating procedure for the Creator/MarxBrothers, especially in their earlier (pre-''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'') films. Thus, and a surprise to many people, this trope is Older Than ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.

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%%* * Most of the [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Wayans Brothers' Brothers']] more wacky movies are like this, especially the this.
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''Film/ScaryMovie'' series (at least the first two and the fifth; one of the Z's of ZAZ, David Zucker, handled the other two), ''Don't Be a Menace two)
** ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'' crams all the tropes from every HoodFilm made up
to South Central While Sippin' Yo Juice in da Hood''
* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'':
that time and cranks them UpToEleven.
** ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' does to {{Blaxploitation}} what ''Airplane!'' did to disaster movies.
The film features a long string of gags, usually several per scene with a quick change to the next scene and more gags.
%%* * This trope was standard operating procedure for the Creator/MarxBrothers, especially in their earlier (pre-''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'') films.films. Even for their time, they were considerable masters of this craft, especially Groucho, who spat out so many one-liners that it can take multiple viewings of any film just to ''hear'' all of his jokes (presumably because you'll be laughing too hard), let alone find them funny. Even if you don't laugh at each individual joke, the absurdly fast delivery can be funny in itself. Thus, and a surprise to many people, this trope is Older Than ''Film/{{Airplane}}''.



%%%* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''PoliceSquad!'' below) [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
%%* ''Film/TheRadiolandMurders'' -- even better on second viewing, because some of it is delivered in such an offhand way.
%%%* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrams/Zucker.]]
%%* ''Film/HotShots'' pretends to be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into ''Airplane!'' territory. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Written and directed by]] Creator/JimAbrahams.

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%%%* * ''Film/TheNakedGun'' series (see ''PoliceSquad!'' below) below). Features {{slapstick}}, {{Visual Pun}}s and {{Shout Out}}s by the bucketful. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker]].
%%* ''Film/TheRadiolandMurders'' * ''Film/TheRadiolandMurders'', which aimed to reproduced the fast-paced of 1930s [[ScrewballComedy Screwball Comedies]] -- even better on second viewing, because some of it is delivered in such an offhand way.
%%%* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' * ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'', more a series of fast-paced sketches than a proper narrative movie. [[RuleOfThree Written by Zucker/Abrams/Zucker.]]
%%* * ''Film/HotShots'' pretends to be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into ''Airplane!'' territory. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Written and directed by]] Creator/JimAbrahams.
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* One of the highlights of Creator/DonRickles' stand ups was to go around the room, trying to "insult" a lot of people in the audience as he possibly can.

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* One of the highlights of Creator/DonRickles' stand ups was to go around the room, room trying to "insult" a lot of as many people in the audience as he possibly can.could.
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* Series/HappyEndings uses this often-usually with 'pile ons'-the characters will go around and all mock one of them in turn, or through [[BreathlessNonSequitur breathless non sequiters,]] or humorous asides in non-humorous statements.

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* Series/HappyEndings ''Series/HappyEndings'' uses this often-usually with 'pile ons'-the characters will go around and all mock one of them in turn, or through [[BreathlessNonSequitur breathless non sequiters,]] or humorous asides in non-humorous statements.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'' has the official animated shorts ''Holo no Graffiti'' which are joke after joke involving the large cast in strange situations.
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This is a subtrope of the RuleOfFunny. It's almost guaranteed that the jokes will include a good number of [[CutawayGag bizarre non-sequiturs]]. HurricaneOfPuns, HurricaneOfEuphemisms and BreathlessNonSequitur are all subtropes of Rapid Fire Comedy. It may happen to you if you ArchiveBinge a comedy Webcomic.

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This is a subtrope SubTrope of the RuleOfFunny. It's almost guaranteed that the jokes will include a good number of [[CutawayGag bizarre non-sequiturs]]. A SuperTrope to HurricaneOfPuns, HurricaneOfEuphemisms and BreathlessNonSequitur are all subtropes of Rapid Fire Comedy.BreathlessNonSequitur. It may happen to you if you ArchiveBinge a comedy Webcomic.

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