Stewart Lee

The setup points the reader toward 'So succession of Imams, er, Imams, all with equal power, so the idea of a top Muslim', then the trigger 'is… Now, anyway this is what he said.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Stay in touch with what’s around you! Looked up the bloke’s feed on Twitter.', then the trigger 'It comes up, “Met General Ratko Mladic in Sheffield today.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Bin Laden was buried at sea, you’ll remember.', then the trigger 'This Thomas Cox goes on, he says, “We should have mounted his head on a spike.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“Oh, come to Sheffield, it was brilliant last time.” You know, it was, but… it’s all right, innit?', then the trigger 'it’s not… Going well down here, innit?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'She didn’t care. Yeah, you remember, don’t you?', then the trigger 'People are going, “Yeah, we remember.” What a good crowd they are, right?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What I’m talking about underneath the strip there was a… What? A thing that you tore off.', then the trigger 'To protect the sticky part of it.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“…Can count himself a failure in life.” That’s what she said. Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher, the jungle cany...', then the trigger 'Don’t clap that.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“Roast him like a chicken, so he would have seen what it felt like.” “There you', then the trigger 'are, Bin Laden, on the lamppost, roasting, yeah.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'If you’ve not seen me before, I don’t think that, I', then the trigger 'think the opposite of that.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“The third one should have been either the Balamory ruler penis “or', then the trigger 'the pencil sharpener anus,” he said.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I don’t know what they imagined.', then the trigger 'Chickens on fire, I don’t know.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'it’s too sad to bear. So I went into Remnant Carpet World. You know what?', then the trigger 'It was a world made out of carpet remnants.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'We all grow up, don’t we, to become the thing we despised as teenagers. What can I do? I’ve got nothing.', then the trigger 'I drive around.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I hope it is. There might be five minutes in it.', then the trigger 'So I went into World of Leather, but it was just a shop.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I got no ideas. This show opened in November in London. In October, I’d got no ideas what to put in it.', then the trigger 'I was desperate.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'You’re like rats fighting in a ditch. Over some piss.', then the trigger 'So, you’ll forgive me if there isn’t really much of a show this year.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Which confirms to me the suspicion that for most of the evening, we’ve been talking at cross purposes.', then the trigger 'This is what she said, Thatcher.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '(AS ANNOUNCER) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Just for Laughs, the 95th Montreal International Comedy Festival,', then the trigger 'bringing you the best of North American standup.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'It’s a waste of time. People just go out at random to anything. I normally sell stuff after the show.', then the trigger 'I wasn’t gonna bother tonight.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is absurdism.

The setup points the reader toward 'I’m not complaining. I’m very lucky to be able to do this and I enjoy performing, you know. Not tonight, obviously.', then the trigger 'it’s not enjoyable.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And he had a… A pen lid, yeah? Yeah, you know, a pen lid on a pen? A pen lid, yeah?', then the trigger 'That was his nose.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Here they are. (IMITATING BROWN) “Hey, you know, one in two kids born in Britain today is called Mohammad.', then the trigger '“And that’s just the girls.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I am gonna do this differently because it’d be really awkward, you know.', then the trigger 'It’s been a high point, that side of Sheff… I don’t know.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Yeah, you seen them? All these young comedians they have now. All the Russells. You’ve seen them? They’re all called...', then the trigger 'All these Russells.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Not the rope bridges, we’ve done with that now. Remember the canyons in the Thatcher days?', then the trigger 'Down here, you remember them a bit, don’t you?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And a desk tidy pen holding thing for his heart. And he had a Balamory ruler for his cock.', then the trigger 'With Miles Jupp’s face on it.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'It’s a point of principle. Erm… Er… Okay, it doesn’t matter, but… Forget that.', then the trigger 'We’ll dub a big… You’ll see this when it’s made.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Like a flat Polo-dimensioned sticker and use them for reinforcing a flimsy document in a binder, yeah?', then the trigger 'You seen these little white Polo stickers.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And he spent 50 years driving around the motorways, showing people samples of cardboard. Not real cardboard, obviously.', then the trigger 'Samples of what cardboard could be like.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Oh, Frank Carson. Brilliant, Frank Carson. Oh, Ken Goodwin. Oh, dead Ken Goodwin. Oh, he’s brilliant. The middle clas...', then the trigger 'Oh, dead Bill Hicks.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is benign-violation.

The setup points the reader toward '“Get out.” I said, “I don’t care. I don’t even like golf. I hate it.” I was desperate.', then the trigger 'I got back in the car.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '‘Can you see what that feels like?” “I can f… I can f… I can feel', then the trigger 'what it feels like.” “That wasn’t the question.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“We got all the different meat animals. “Cows, pigs, chickens, etc., “but they live in the city of London.', then the trigger '“Like meat, live in a city?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Tiny, perfectly proportioned carpet remnant homes and long, wide carpet remnant avenues, lined with carpet remnant sc...', then the trigger 'And carpet remnant universities.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“You got a leather hill.” He said, “Get out.” I was desperate.', then the trigger 'I go back in the car, I went south down the North Circular.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'From Scooby Doo. And now… Okay, these are all real. Five minutes on Google.', then the trigger 'Can I have the jazz music and the lighting change please?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'When I lived in the flat above the estate agents by the fire station, if you remember that.', then the trigger 'Not a big flat, you know.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'To give you an example of what I mean. Last October, I was driving along the M40.', then the trigger 'I wasn’t gonna do a gig this time.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What should I do?” And he said, “Never mind, just run around.” I’ve got nothing. I drive around, I look after kids.', then the trigger 'I got nothing.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'You get… You can’t… You know, you being a comic when you know you’re under surveillance', then the trigger 'by people that despise you is quite hard.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Going to the dressing room here, laptop, wi-fi, Internet. Looked it up on Twitter.', then the trigger 'You have to look everything up on Twitter now, don’t you?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'You don’t see me doing standup shows about that. Because I’ve got some self, I’ve got some dignity and self-respect.', then the trigger 'People doing shows about themselves.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'it’s okay, but it’s not… So I’m just gonna go back… I’m just gonna go back over the first half.', then the trigger 'Not every line of it!' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What am I gonna say?” So I said to him, “No, it isn’t a ghost.', then the trigger '“It’s a lady.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Will the big society work?', then the trigger 'Whether we think so depends on our immediate experience of society around us.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“Shouldn’t you be at the Hague war crimes tribunal?” He thought I was General Ratko Mladic. The genocidal Serbian war...', then the trigger 'He’s 67 years old.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“And in return “all the jungle canyon rope bridges “will be fully maintained in a safe', then the trigger 'condition.” That’s what he said, William Beveridge, 1942.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I mainly drive around on motorways or look after my kids, that’s why I have not had', then the trigger 'really enough time to make this show good.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Of course, they’re very keen on balance at the Daily Mail.', then the trigger 'It’s been a watch-word of the paper going way back to the 1930s.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What has made this Mohammed al-Qubaisi so jaded? that this does not fit his definition of extraordinary circumstances?', then the trigger 'What a jaded, jaded man, Sheffield.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I might do now, if it’s been all right.', then the trigger 'Well, you don’t just wanna sit there with loads of people filing past spitting at you.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“I am sitting next to Stewart Lee in the Clock Cafe, Highbury. “He is eating a muffin.', then the trigger 'He looks fat.” “11:30 a.m., Hackney celebrity alert.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Because I… No… You can’t because… Down here, I don’t even need to finish that joke off.', then the trigger 'They… They’ve thought, “Oh, yeah, samples of jokes.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“I am hoping that the fish and the crabs are having a good…” That’s never got a laugh before.', then the trigger 'I’m glad we came to Sheffield.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Little, yeah, sad comedy shows and then at the end a bit of sad music comes in.', then the trigger 'Clair de la Lune or something like that.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Do you find that? As an example of what I mean, I’ve been married seven years.', then the trigger 'Six years ago, we’d been married a year.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“Some of which is no Ion er 9 commercially available.” “I had to stay up', then the trigger 'late and bid for it on e-Bay.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And it’s like an illness, I couldn’t help myself! (TOUGH LONDON VOICE) “Like meat, live in a city?', then the trigger '“Get yourself down to City Meat!' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'You think, “Oh, I’ll just go out in the world, “interact with some people, have a lot…” Don’t walk out during this.', then the trigger 'This is bad.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I’m talking about. The jungle canyon rope bridges, yeah?', then the trigger 'Over the canyons in the jungle, the rope bridges.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'How self-indulgent is that? I couldn’t do a show about myself if I wanted to. I don’t know who I am.', then the trigger 'Who am I?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Anti-Islamic observational comedy. (LEE SIGHS) (MIC POPS) (LOUD LAUGHTER) (SIGHS) Have you seen these Muslims they ha...', then the trigger 'That’s the end of that bit.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '-(AUDIENCE LAUGHS) Heh, er… Okay, usually when we’re not filming the show, that joke goes so well', then the trigger 'that I end the first half on that.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward '“Sea burials are permissible for Muslims “in extraordinary circumstances only, “and this is not one of them.”', then the trigger 'Let’s have a quick recap on those circumstances.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And you don’t often see those two things working as a team, do you?', then the trigger 'I’ll give you an example of what I mean, right?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'We mean nothing by it. So He was leading me along the road, Jesus.', then the trigger 'And within about a minute the same thing had happened again.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'If I’d seen that, I would have laughed.', then the trigger 'But I suppose if you work in endoscopy, you run the risk of becoming jaded.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Goes down to about there.', then the trigger 'Now, I’ve never understood the design of them, because as a man, right, I’m not ashamed of my breasts, OK?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Do you think that’s true?', then the trigger 'Do you think that’s true?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What can he possibly want?’ You might even be frightened, right.', then the trigger '’Cause that joke only works if a kind of anonymous weirdo is saying it.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'It’d be stupid.', then the trigger 'Now, I don’t know if you remember, when the Pope died, the Catholic Church put out this story about his last words.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'OK, Team F, I’m going to put you at your ease, right? It’s OK to not like all of this.', then the trigger 'It has sometimes happened before.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And there’s always been a kind of tradition of the', then the trigger 'mainstream acts stealing our jokes.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Which you have to stop reading, right, because … You have to stop reading, because Dan', then the trigger 'Brown is not … It’s not literature, right?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Um … not just for a comedy', then the trigger 'set either, for anything.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I’m not saying that I am Jesus.', then the trigger 'That’s for you to think about at the … I’m not saying I’m Jesus, right, I’m not.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And there is a performer–audience relationship, and there are probably people here thinking, ‘Yes, there is,', then the trigger 'Stew, and you have presumed upon that relationship.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Don’t judge me for this, OK?', then the trigger 'Don’t be uncomfortable, I am a human being like you, I am a member of society.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I won’t even know that it’s happening, literally.', then the trigger 'This is a story about a load of stuff that happened to me last year.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'You’ll be all right. There’ll be a point in about eight minutes when you’ll be … when you’ll laugh at something.', then the trigger 'You won’t know why.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And there’s a bit of poo on the back of the bowl.', then the trigger 'And you think, ‘Ooh, I’ll hose that off.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And he always used to wear a long brown mac and', then the trigger 'carry a little plastic bag.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'So that helps to bring the whole room onside.', then the trigger 'Come on, come on in, Team F, come on.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'So I ran round to this little room my mum’s got by the back door.', then the trigger 'Your mum’s probably got a room like this, OK?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Then we realised the nudity was amusing.', then the trigger 'So … But it is weird, getting accused of blasphemy.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And He’s taking my hand, in my imagination that’s what that is, right? It’s not real.', then the trigger 'But then He started talking to me, Jesus.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'To try and nip that in the bud, to try and stop it from', then the trigger 'building, I said, ‘A sheep there.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I had to go into hospital in February.', then the trigger 'I’ve also been going a bit deaf.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Will that relax you, madam? It’s OK to not like some of this, right?', then the trigger 'People have not … I’ve done this show about ninety times.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Because I actually nursed two friends, right, um, an elderly relative and someone I’d known from school.', then the trigger 'And they were both people that I loved.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And I tried to walk past it.', then the trigger 'When I got about ten, fifteen feet away from this thing, I recognised it as being Jesus, right?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'He was great. He lives in Glasgow now.', then the trigger 'But he had big bushy hair and a kind of long, droopy moustache, and deep-set bloodhound eyes.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And there’s some other nineteen-fifties American teenagers, and they’re going, ‘Oh, that looks fun. I wish we could g...', then the trigger 'But we can’t.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And you won’t mind if I don’t play over here too much, I’m going to be', then the trigger 'mainly concentrating on Team F in that corner.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And I will be enjoying that unique fusion of profound grief and violent sexual arousal.', then the trigger 'And that’s the most profound feeling anyone can ever have.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is benign-violation.

The setup points the reader toward 'And I started trying to get the key in and fumbling around. And then I thought, ‘This is a bit weird.', then the trigger 'Jesus is here.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'But the idea that you’ve been cut off kind of legally', then the trigger 'is quite a frightening idea.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And while I was thinking about this, He disappeared.', then the trigger 'And I felt bad because I was, I was grateful that He’d helped me home.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And outside the baker’s, they make fun of the baker.', then the trigger 'And outside the town hall, they’ll take the piss out of the mayor or whatever.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Because we weren’t expecting to be made to visualise this image.', then the trigger 'There was no warning of this, it wasn’t flagged up.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'It’s not … And intellectuals like me have tried to explain to you why Dan Brown', then the trigger 'is a bad … and it’s not working.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'In your house.', then the trigger 'Even though your home lacks the most rudimentary of brewing facilities.”’ Ah, someone nearly clapped alone there.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'You should go and see them. Go and see them.', then the trigger 'And I will wait for you to come back to me because I love you.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Don’t cheer that you are better than them, right, Team A, for some of you it’s just', then the trigger 'the luck of random seating, isn’t it, right?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is absurdism.

The setup points the reader toward 'And He was pointing at His open mouth, as if what He wanted was for me', then the trigger 'to vomit into the open mouth of Christ.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'That’s … that’s the kind of little village it is, right.', then the trigger 'But as it turned out, running away to Worcestershire was a mistake.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And the first one in was from an American comic called Jackie Kashian that', then the trigger 'I’d worked with in Perth in June.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I don’t even know what that is, I just saw it on a map.', then the trigger 'Splott and Joe Pasquale, he could be sent out as well.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'It was Gary Lineker looking out for me. I trusted his velvet-owl face to look after me.', then the trigger 'And … But he chooses to advertise crisps.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And he’s been green [sic] twice since then.', then the trigger 'Erm … once in a six-issue mini-series written by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale called Hulk: Gray.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'But it is easy, Glasgow, right, in the current climate of paranoia to make a kind of race-based error, right.', then the trigger 'I’ve done it myself.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'That’s conveniently missed out. Thirdly, you know that French princess he’s supposed to have sex with?', then the trigger 'This French princess, in the film, you remember?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is benign-violation.

The setup points the reader toward 'And suddenly, a little fart came out, right.', then the trigger 'But it was only a really tiny fart, like the kind of fart a vole might do.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'But … of course the other major inaccuracy of that film was that in the Middle', then the trigger 'Ages there was no such country as Scotland.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What did you say?’ And I said … ‘I said, Ang Lee, you’ve directed the Hulk film.', then the trigger 'You must be very excited and proud.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'What is it?’ And she’d have gone … [stands up] ‘Please.', then the trigger 'If you … If you love me, just this one time, just get up.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And then in death, not to have become the unwitting receptacle of the hysterical, overemotional, shrieking grief of t...', then the trigger 'That’s what she would have wanted.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is benign-violation.

The setup points the reader toward 'A man leaving there to go away and think about the idea of a paedophile Braveheart', then the trigger 'in the privacy of a toilet cubicle.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And um … I’m not allowed to read out what his actual email address is, but', then the trigger 'if you go there, you can find it.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Get up.’ [lying down] And he’d have gone … ‘Look, I was out late last night.', then the trigger 'I’ve got, I’ve got work at seven … tomorrow.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'It’s going to be called the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain Memorial Fountain Fountain.', then the trigger 'But it’s not going to be some state-approved, Viscount Althorp-subsidised architectural carbuncle.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And even then I’m not going to get dressed.', then the trigger 'I’m just going to be, like, in my pants and stuff, just sitting around.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Who likes cream cakes? Who likes their favourite food, whatever it is? Who likes Ben Elton? Oh, it’s no one.', then the trigger 'OK, here’s another one.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And … I don’t want to make any assumptions, you know … Um … So I', then the trigger 'was watching that in this, this Spanish bar.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Some laughs there, other people are a bit confused.', then the trigger '‘What’s he talking about?’ Right?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Really they ought, comedically, to build. But the balaclava helmet was a disappointment.', then the trigger 'It didn’t get the laugh one would be hoping for there.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And I realised that with that one inane, puerile, scatological gesture I had achieved more for', then the trigger 'world peace than any politician had all day.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Thanks a lot for bearing with us tonight, thank you. Thank you very much.', then the trigger 'Exit music: ‘Queen of the World’ by Lloyd and Claudette.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And on television there was all this film of buildings on fire, and things', then the trigger 'falling down, and people running and screaming.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'I mean, I couldn’t just do another fart at will. You know, I’m not a nineteenth-century French music-hall entertainer.', then the trigger 'I’m the opposite of that.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And I, I don’t want to have to be like some E-list celebrity New Labour apologist.', then the trigger 'I don’t want to meet her, no way.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Please don’t get me wrong,’ writes Scott, ‘I am no Nazi or xenophobe as the pressure', then the trigger 'groups or government would have you believe.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And he said that, in his opinion, it was a', then the trigger 'load of fuss about nothing.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'No, that’s fine.', then the trigger 'So, so I was really excited to, to interview Ang Lee about the Hulk, and um … ’cause he’d made the film.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Some laughs, some doubt in the room. People going, ‘We’re kind of with you theoretically.', then the trigger 'We understand this is some kind of satire of something.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is imitation.

The setup points the reader toward 'No one’s ever said it before.', then the trigger 'Why did you say it?' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'But it’s true.', then the trigger 'And I don’t think it’s … I think it’s really great that, that our national hero, er, William Wallace, was gay.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'And the Arab guy, he, he heard the fart. And he looked across at me. And I looked back at him.', then the trigger 'And he laughed.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Recorded on 10 March 2005 at The Stand, Glasgow Pre-show music: ‘The Breath of Coldness’ by Evan Parker Stewart appears.', then the trigger 'Music changes to ‘Mr.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'So, on September the 11th, 2001 … I was actually on holiday, right. That seems distasteful now.', then the trigger 'But I wasn’t to know at the time.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'But, but when I interview, I try to make a little joke to put them at ease, you know.', then the trigger 'So I rang him up.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'That’s the time he goes to the dentist, Glasgow! Don’t let him tell you any different.', then the trigger 'He doesn’t even need to write it down.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'In the street, in your house, in a library, in an antenatal unit, in the face of', then the trigger 'a treasured family pet or an elderly relative.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'The room had kind of split along racial, religious lines.', then the trigger 'There was a horrible tension in the room.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.

The setup points the reader toward 'Or Anna Friel. It was a fart that smelt mainly of hair and was comprised principally of ideas.', then the trigger 'But it was a fart nonetheless.' forces a reinterpretation. The main mechanism is incongruity-resolution.