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 Futurama.
By the numbers
How concentrated this archetype's signature joke types are in Futurama, vs the baseline share across every joke we've scored.
Share in Futurama Baseline across all jokes
Jokes a Wordsmith loves
“You are my raw dogs, and you won.”
— Frank, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
“The shirts against the blouses.”
— Charlie Murphy, Chappelle's Show
“White people love Wayne Brady because he makes... Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.”
— Negrodamus, Chappelle's Show
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