One-Liners

For the last few weeks, Martyn Honeyford and I have been trying to come up with the shortest joke.

I think it's going to be difficult to beat:

"Pretentious? Moi?"

This has been variously attributed to Fawlty Towers and The Muppet Show, though the precise origin is unclear.

Martyn came up with:

"German sausage is the wurst."

This has apparently been independently 'discovered' many times.

From Jimmy Carr:

"Venison's dear!"

From elsewhere on the web:

"Stationery store moves."

"Dwarf shortage."

"Small medium at large."

"Putting 'sexy' into 'dyslexia'." 

But perhaps my favourite sources of surprisingly good one-liners are the Carry On films. In Carry On Up The Khyber (1968):

"Poor old Will! Why do they always fire at him?"

And, most famously, Carry on Cleo (1964) via Take It From Here on BBC radio:

"Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me!"