History Main / RapidFireComedy

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* ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016'' follows its tie-in game fairly faithfully, but as a CompressedAdaptation where the deciding factor of if things stayed in or not was how many laughs they thought they could get out of it. Eventually lampshaded by Qwark: when Nefarious complains that his joke wasn't funny, he responds that he has to think up thousands of these things; they can't ''all'' be gold.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': Though the film knows to slow down for emotional moments, its comedy moments are barrages.

[[folder:Stand Up Comedy]]
* Creator/BobHope was known for this style of comedy, which purportedly burned through writers at an alarming rate.
* Creator/RobinWilliams was the Master of Rapid Fire Comedy, often described as the rare performer whose mouth moved as quickly as his brain. Generous portions of his standup routine and movie roles were improvised.
** His no-brakes verbal speed could get him in trouble, though: Williams swiped jokes from other comedians. He did not do this intentionally. Instead, in his own explanation, the pace at which he improvised meant he did not have time to be sure whether a joke was one he had written or remembered from a colleague's performance -- in other words, contrary to the aforementioned praise, his mouth moved ''faster'' than his brain. To atone, Williams financially compensated his fellow comedians every time he realized he had inadvertently borrowed their work. Thanks to this the world of stand-up comedy bears him no resentment.
* 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.
* Comedian Tim Vine is a former holder of the Guinness World Record for most jokes told in an hour, currently held by perennial Series/StarSearch winner Geechy Guy.
* Despite his trademark slow, deadpan delivery, Creator/StevenWright's stand-up comedy is all about this trope. Virtually every sentence out of his mouth is a punchline.
* Ben Elton's stand-up act throughout the Eighties was based on this, {{motor mouth}}ing the gags at twice normal speed. He later lamented the fact that he used up so much good material so quickly.
* Quite a few Creator/GeorgeCarlin routines, but "Modern Man" wins the prize for jokes/second ratio.
* Listening to Creator/DennisMiller is the standup equivalent of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3k]]''.
* Jimmy Carr, while he does slow down when he does audience interaction segments, none of his "regular" jokes last more than 15 seconds. The jokes are essentially those lame gags found in Christmas Crackers spiced up a bit and delivered in such a deadpan style [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny that they become funny again]].
* Ken Dodd, teller of quick jokes, has stated several times that he's always after a joke rate of "7 TPM", or seven titters per minute. He once won the Guinness' World Record for this, with 7.14 jokes per minute for three or so hours.
* Creator/BoBurnham's songs, especially his raps.
* Creator/MitchHedberg, oh so much.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* This trope is comparatively rare in shorter works like webcomics and newspaper comics, but ''Webcomic/VGCats'' stands out as an example--it often doesn't even have a punchline in the proper sense, ending the strip when it's out of jokes on the subject.
* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' uses this format all the time. The most common format for the comic is one panel of set-up and [[RuleOfThree three more panels]], each with a mini joke within them. "[[https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/pizza-delivery-2/ Pizza Delivery]]" is a good example of the comic's style, and it even has ''four'' mini jokes in it!
* A number of ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' comics, such as [[http://xkcd.com/730/ this one]] or [[http://xkcd.com/482/ these]] [[http://xkcd.com/485/ two,]] present large panoramas built around a common theme saturated with jokes for this apparent purpose.
* The further ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' goes, the more jokes in a single issue there are. Case in point: Creator/LittleKuriboh's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8ZnAqUdgU voiceover of Let's Destroy Shagohod]] (''VideoGame/MetalGear'' spoilers alert).
* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', like ''Webcomic/VGCats'', uses a longer form, punchline-less system. On an average strip, every single panel with have a joke in each word-bubble, a joke in the background, a VisualPun and a joke in the title.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* This is, by definition, the main form of comedy in TheAbridgedSeries. The whole point of them is that they're fast-paced comedic retellings of popular shows, so the jokes come as quickly as everything else.

* LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} is a master of this due to his [[TalkativeLoon stream-of-consciousness commentary]].
* Both of purpleeyeswtf's abridgements, ''WebVideo/CodeMENT'' and ''WebVideo/NonePiece'', make amazing use of this trope. Purpleyes' amazing comedic timing doesn't exactly hurt.
** There's also [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged]], which is an [[SerialEscalation abridged version of an abridged version of the series]], going through everything before the Namek arc in only 2 minutes and crashing headfirst into this trope at mach speed.
** Now with Episode 2! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESDAXKC2418&list=UUsvazPPlhZlch0-Z3wPByeg Here.]]
* ''WebVideo/NullmetalAlchemist'' successfully mimics purpleeyeswtf's style of rapid surreal humor.
* ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'' uses this often. In Episode II, for example, almost every other line is a joke.

%%%* Chester A. Bum of ''WebVideo/BumReviews''

* ''Creator/LittleKuriboh'' loves doing this on many of his shows.
** ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' uses the abridging to just cram the jokes into their densest state.
** The 'LetsPlay/MarikPlaysBloodlines' LetsPlay series isn't as dense with jokes, but Marik still keeps the jokes flying.
** ''WebVideo/TheMarkRemark'' is longer than the other series, but still has several jokes a minute.
* ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'' has two [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/bonus/date/desc?search=comedy+ so+ fast rapidfire]] series.
-->"Comedy so fast The Flash once said, 'Even though I am technically faster than Superman, I too agree that this comedy is quicker than what you typically see.'"
* ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms''; Each video is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin five seconds long]]. And usually hilarious.
* WebVideo/AMVHell is a series of fan videos with a style of humor curiously similar to Robot Chicken (in spite of being created before Robot Chicken aired). Anime clips, no more than a minute long, are set to music or audio from a different source for comedic effect. It also lasts for more than an hour.
* ''WebVideo/PoniesTheAnthology'' is essentially WebVideo/AMVHell meets ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.''
* All of Creator/{{Seanbaby}}'s writings are a cluster of connected jokes.
* ''WebVideo/AskANinja'': Particularly the Omni- episodes, in which the Ninja answers several questions in rapid succession.
* It's unsurprising that WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} is this, given that it's essentially {{MST}}[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 3K]] for LetsPlay (and bad video game content in general).
* Creator/{{Nigahiga}} takes MoreDakka and applies it to this trope.

* Watch any Vine video compilation. If the currently playing 7-second clip doesn't do it for you, odds are the next one will.
* [=YouTube=] Poop videos are very, ''very'' prone to falling into this.
* The guys from WebVideo/MyWayEntertainment go into this...''especially'' Randy Hayes.
* In early videos made by WebVideo/MatthewSantoro, Matthew makes a joke every few seconds.
* Most of WebVideo/BillWurtz's videos, especially the ones he made for Vine (see above) but also the longer ones he's done since. Both ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'' and ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'' [[MotorMouth speed-talk]] through several millennia worth of history in a matter of minutes and nearly every single line is a punchline. And that's not even counting the seconds-long jingles peppered throughout his entire oeuvre.
* ''WebVideo/ButReallyReallyFast'' runs on this trope.

[[folder:Western Animation]]
%%%* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
%%%* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', to a lesser extent, since it has more story and fewer {{Non Sequitur}}s.
%%%* Any cartoon produced by Creator/JayWard, especially ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''.
* 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.
* The Creator/TexAvery-inspired Creator/StevenSpielberg-produced cartoon shows ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and, to an even greater extent, ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'' takes this to an extreme: pauses the voice actors put between jokes are ''digitally removed''.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''; made of Rapid-Fire Comedy and ADHD. Emphasis on "hyperactivity".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': A combination of this and obscure references ensures that you'll still be catching new jokes on your fourth, fifth, etc. time watching any given episode. Especially in later seasons.
%%%* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''
%%%* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': With its constant use of running gags and basic jokes, the episodes tend to string them together. In fact, as the seasons went on, the show used this trope more frequently.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' tended to use this a lot in the episode that creator Stephen Hillenberg oversaw. The episodes without him relied more on {{overly long gag}}s.
%%%* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' can sneak up on you like this.
--> '''Mr. Burns:''' It's as big as a football field and weighs as much as the state of New Hampshire. I only flew it once at an altitude of six feet for a distance of four feet. Then we discovered that rain makes it catch fire. Then the Fuhrer fired me.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', there are many scenes where literally every line of dialogue is a punchline. Though the target audience will only get about half of them, as the rest is for older siblings or parents.
%%%* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', which strings together everything from parody to slapstick to obscure intellectual stuff aimed at the PeripheryDemographic.
%%%* AardmanAnimations.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' often utilizes this, often in the form of Archer (or others) screwing up tons of things in rapid succession.
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMagiswords'' has got to set the record for most jokes per 11-minute episode. In fact, a common criticism of the show is that the pace is often too fast to follow.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has too many jokes to list, given the ReferenceOverdosed and DeconstructorFleet nature of the show.

%%%* ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha''

* ''TalesOfTheArabianNights'' features over 2000 story snippets, that are frequently hilarious due to the fortune or peril they cause the player. Its rules emphasizes storytelling, and it's a bigger disappointment to not do something funny on a turn than it is to lose.
* Nearly every card in ''{{Munchkin}}'' (and its many spinoffs) features a pun or reference, and even the rulebook itself consistently cracks jokes.

* The further ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' goes, the more jokes in a single issue there are. Case in point: Creator/LittleKuriboh's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8ZnAqUdgU voiceover of Let's Destroy Shagohod]] (VideoGame/MetalGear spoilers alert).

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder:Film]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}'' mixes this with SurrealHumour to hilarious effect.

* Youtube Poop is very, ''very'' prone to falling into this.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''. There are many scenes where literally every line of dialogue is a punchline. Though the target audience will only get about half of them, the rest is for older siblings or parents.

%%%* ''PuniPuniPoemi''

%%%** ''SpaceQuest VI''

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* The further Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} goes, the more jokes in a single issue there are. Case in point: Creator/LittleKuriboh's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8ZnAqUdgU voiceover of Let's Destroy Shagohod]] (VideoGame/MetalGear spoilers alert).
* ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'', like ''Webcomic/VGCats'', uses a longer form, punchline-less system. On an average strip, every single panel with have a joke in each word-bubble, a joke in the background, a VisualPun and a joke in the title.

This technique is an easy way to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar get crap past the radar]], since the censors don't have enough time to notice the obscene joke among the dozens of other gags.

* ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' often got into this; understandable, since Creator/RobinWilliams was the star. WordOfGod is that the scriptwriters would often simply write "[[HarpoDoesSomethingFunny Robin does something funny]]" for him to improvise something on the spot.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers='', In the beginning of the first episode when everyone is talking at once, you would have to watch it several times to get all the jokes.

* 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.

%%%* ''{{Fireball}}''
%%%* ''KodomoNoOmocha''

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', In the beginning of the first episode when everyone is talking at once, you would have to watch it several times to get all the jokes.
* Manga/{{Teekyuu}}: Each episode is only two minutes long, including the opening theme, so a lot of the humor goes on at breakneck speeds.

* InUniverse example in ''Film/BicentennialMan'': Andrew tries doing this, but he doesn't understand that humor is about delivery and so he simply recites a bunch of jokes one after the other without transitioning or even pausing between words and sentences.

%%* ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'' Both ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' are known for their quick wit, so when they're together, they build off of one another's jokes.

* Legendary comedian/actor Creator/BobHope was known for this style of comedy, which purportedly burned through writers at an alarming rate.
* Creator/RobinWilliams was the Master of Rapid Fire Comedy, often described as the rare performer who's mouth moved as quickly as his brain. Generous portions of his standup routine and movie roles were improvised.

* Creator/StevenWright, and how!

* Despite his trademark slow, deadpan delivery, Steven Wright's stand-up comedy is all about this trope. Virtually every sentence out of his mouth is a punchline.

[[folder:Advertising]]
* ''Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike'' ads for Old Spice, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE This one,]] for instance.

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* {{Yonkoma}} comedy mangas in general. They usually have 1 joke every 4 frames at minimum.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', though usually slower paced, falls under this trope sometimes. Especially in the beginning of the first episode when everyone is talking at once. You would have to watch it several times to get all the jokes.
* Manga/{{Teekyuu}} specializes in these. Each episode is only two minutes long, including the opening theme, so a lot of the humor goes on at breakneck speeds.

* The last few ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' comics turned into this: a pageful of panels filled mostly with Polish popculture references or {{pun}}s- on a single subject.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'' Both ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' and ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}'' are known for their quick wit, so when they're together, it often results in this trope when they build off of one another's jokes.

* ''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.

* 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''

* 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}}''.
* And then there's ''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/TheRadiolandMurders'' -- even better on second viewing, because some of it is delivered in such an offhand way.
* Creator/MelBrooks is quite fond of this comedic technique; his genre parodies tend to consist of non-stop gags.

* ''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.
%%%* Most of Woody Allen's pre-Annie Hall output consisted of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'' wastes no time showing the zaniness of the lego world and Emmett's journey that soon follows.

* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' uses this format all the time. The most common format for the comic is one panel of set-up and [[RuleOfThree three more panels]], each with a mini joke within them. "[[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/pizza-delivery/ Pizza Delivery]]" is a good example of the comic's style, and it even has ''four'' mini jokes in it!

* The last few ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' comics turned into this: a pageful of panels filled mostly with Polish popculture references or {{pun}}s on a single subject.

* In-movie example: Andrew tries doing this in ''Film/BicentennialMan'', but he doesn't understand that humor is about delivery and so he simply recites a bunch of jokes one after the other without transitioning or even pausing between words and sentences.

* ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' 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.

* ''Series/31 minutos''fully enters this trope. Even in the most educational sketches.

* The guys from WebOriginal/MyWayEntertainment go into this...''especially'' Randy Hayes.

* Most of Creator/BillWurtz's videos, especially the ones he made for Vine (see above) but also the longer ones he's done since. Both ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'' and ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'' [[MotorMouth speed-talk]] through several millennia worth of history in a matter of minutes and nearly every single line is a punchline. And that's not even counting the seconds-long jingles peppered throughout his entire oeuvre.

* In ''MagicTheGathering'''s Unglued and Unhinged expansions, every card has several in-jokes squeezed onto it. They even put jokes in the legal text on the packaging.

** In fact it succeeded so well that one executive was concerned their viewers wouldn't be able to keep up with the sheer number of jokes the show, and it was cancelled after only one short 6 episode season as a result.

* The further Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} goes, the more jokes in a single issue there are. Case in point: Creator/LittleKuriboh's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY8ZnAqUdgU voiceover of Let's Destroy Shagohod]] (Franchise/MetalGear spoilers alert).

* Earlier episodes of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' (mostly season two, though some fans would argue that the first half of season three held on) operated this way: smart, dense, dadaistic, and somewhat prone to ContinuityLockout, with a ''minimum'' of three separate plots per episode. The episode "Succession" perhaps served as the series' CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* 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'' and ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka''.