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comedy pyramid

A game played on the radio where callers ring up on the topic at hand and try and have the funniest quip.
comedy pyramid by matt October 22, 2003

Comedy Pyramid

A situation in which a comedian comes up with some original material (he is ast the top of the pyramid, and other fellow comedians steal the material and change it around just enough to avoid plagiarism. (they are the next level down from the top of the pyramid). The process continues, cascading in a downward direction, making the pyramid larger.
That Bastard stole my joke! Now i have to deal with another Comedy Pyramid again!
Comedy Pyramid by Homer J. Simpson October 21, 2003

comedy pyramid

when a comedy act goes through a cycle of being: 3 - 5 "ok" comedians, 2 - 3 funny comedians, 1 - 2 Hilarious Comedians, Thus building what we might call a pyramid. It makes a pyramid to the funniest comedian at the show.
man, last nights show was an awsome comedy pyramid! it was kinda good at first and kept getting better and better till the end!
comedy pyramid by Jimbo October 22, 2003

comedy pyramid

A colloquial term for a redundant landmark, often relating to useless moments of public spending, the meaning of which has long been forgotten amidst a forest of red tape.

monstrous carbuncle
So there's that memorial statue of Patsy Palmer... you know, it's so long since they proposed that, it's a bit of a Comedy Pyramid now to be honest...
comedy pyramid by TheIan October 22, 2003
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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