Comedy archetype
The Wordsmith
Language doing backflips.
You live for the perfectly engineered line — wordplay, irony, a setup that snaps shut like a trap. The funniest thing in the room is usually a sentence.
Most exemplified by
The sitcom whose joke mix matches The Wordsmith most closely is Veep.
By the numbers
How concentrated this archetype's signature joke types are in Veep, vs the baseline share across every joke we've scored.
Share in Veep Baseline across all jokes
Jokes a Wordsmith loves
“The Seaward. - You're not getting a boat. Get rid of the Seaward. - I'll leave when I'm good and ready.”
— Arrested Development
“That's a joke. The Moors. Oh, no. I'm so sorry. It's the 'Moops.' The correct answer is the Moops.”
— Seinfeld
“Drive, intelligence, humility, chaos... or the acronym 'dihc.' I'm looking for dihc, Avery. And I'm gonna take it wherever I can find it.”
— 30 Rock
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