Will lands a spot in a comedy showcase after accompanying a comic friend to an audition.
WAR
76.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Aint No Business Like Show Business” ranks #3 of 148 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 85.2 — Elite. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 on impact, with Will landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Keith: You know, had that been a black mother, she'd have been proud. Pick up the phone, call her best friend, 'Girl, turn to Channel 2. My baby's on TV!'
Keith Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Phil: They named him Sinbad! He had two options: Pirate or comic.
Phil Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Will · Phil: I'll go to an out-of-state college. Keith, my boy, welcome.
Carlton: Dad's pretty quick for a big guy. I mean, he kept up with the car for a whole block.
Carlton Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Carlton · Hilary: Boo! Get off the stage! We want our money back! Go back where you came from!
All Jokes — 68 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Hilary · Phil: Look, I was thinking, you know, this week, maybe we could... get in a game of tennis at the club and maybe do lunch? - You and me? - Yeah. Good one, Daddy.
Hilary Phil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton: Needy father alert.
Carlton Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ashley: What we're saying is, here's $10. Go to the movies. Run!
Ashley Escalation Physical/Slapstick Carlton: Dad's pretty quick for a big guy. I mean, he kept up with the car for a whole block.
Carlton Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Hilary: He couldn't help it. He got his coat stuck in the door.
Hilary Escalation Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Carlton · Will: Wow, Will, clean clothes. What, is your probation officer stopping by?
Carlton: Yeah, well, I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'So what?'
Carlton Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Will: And I think I speak for myself when I say, 'Uncle Phil, they in here!'
Will Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Will · Phil: Well, see, I was wondering, since I'm not part of the immediate family... I was wondering if I was immune... Sit down, Will.
Will: I'm gonna sit down right here... in the non-immediate family section of the living room. And I'm gonna shut up on my way down. Watch.
Will Escalation Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Phil: Now, you listen, and you listen good. We are a family. I know this because I pay the bills.
Phil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Carlton: Jawohl, mein Fuehrer!
Phil: and I'll think of a few more things as soon as I finish watching those Cosby reruns.
Phil Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Geoffrey: I love my work. Excuse me, I need to call my therapist.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Look, Uncle Phil, please, if you let Keith stay here... I promise I'll stop making them 976 calls on your car phone.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: Okay, if you let him stay... I'll take you to Chuck E. Cheese and I'll tell the head rat it's your birthday.
Will Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will · Phil: I'll go to an out-of-state college. Keith, my boy, welcome.
Keith: Sound like what black people buy when they got too much time on their hands.
Keith Observational Character Comedy Keith: From the time we was in kindergarten, every thing we did... I always beat you like you stole something.
Keith Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: Kind of like you just beat me now, huh?
Keith: Telling jokes... See, that's what your drunk Uncle Lou do at weddings.
Keith Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: He has an inner ear problem. That's why he always be sliding out of his chair.
Will Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Keith: All your life you just been funny-looking.
Keith: I mean, look at them big old ears. Lean over that way and tell me what's going on in Somalia.
Keith Setup/Punchline Escalation Will: Well, if I couldn't find my way to Somalia, I could follow that big map on your head.
Will Setup/Punchline Callback Keith: Look at them big teeth, all big and spaced out. What you floss with, a jump rope?
Keith Setup/Punchline Escalation Will: I think you going to have to pay me to laugh at that one, bro.
Will Deadpan/Understatement Geoffrey: I'm off duty. You can talk, but I don't have to listen.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will · Geoffrey: Two gorillas go into a bar, right? - Not.
Will: Hey, girl... you look so good, I'd marry your brother just to get in your family.
Will Setup/Punchline Escalation Will: Yo, man, you see that? That's called the I-want-Will walk.
Will Observational Character Comedy Keith: Hey, girl! Why don't you stand up and wrap your arms around a real man?
Keith Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Will: Excuse me, miss, is this abrasive Negro bothering you?
Will Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Will: Now, you look here, buddy. You have no business bothering this sweet young lady. Now you apologize and don't make me take off my belt.
Will Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Keith: Not the belt, man. I'll be cool.
Keith Escalation Callback Callback Club Owner · Will: You. - Me? - You a comic? I don't know you. Yeah, I'm known all over this town. I'm Shecky. Shecky Shabazz.
Will: Yabba dabba do, I'm in the showcase, too!
Will Escalation Character Comedy Phil · Hilary: It's wonderful spending time with one's family. - Daddy. - Yes, dearest? I'm feeling nauseous.
Phil Hilary Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Phil: I am, too. Let's take a break, kids.
Phil Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Phil: Maybe I should have just sent you to Camp Funnypants.
Phil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: I bet Sinbad's parents supported him when he wanted to be a comedian.
Will Setup/Punchline Observational Phil: They named him Sinbad! He had two options: Pirate or comic.
Phil Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Will: Uncle Phil, this thing is bigger than both of us. Sort of.
Will Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Will: Uncle Phil, this thing is bigger than both of us. Sort of.
Will Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick Keith: This ain't nothing but a joke to you. To me this is serious.
Keith Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Carlton: Did you hear what the snail said when he rode on the back of the turtle? - No, Carlton, what? Whee!
Carlton Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carlton · Will: Why did the turkey cross the road? - I know I'm going to regret this, but why? - Chicken's day off.
Carlton · Will: Why did the turkey cross the road? - I know I'm going to regret this, but why? Chicken's day off.
Will: See, Carlton, this is why people trip you in the halls.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: I went out with this girl who ain't have no arms. I took her to The Arsenio Hall Show and she was like...
Will Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick Will: He kind of look like a miniature Bryant Gumbel on a bad hair day.
Will Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Will: he's so short... he just rips them off his G.I. Joe doll and wears 'em right out of the box.
Will Setup/Punchline Escalation Will: he just rips them off his G.I. Joe doll and wears 'em right out of the box.
Will Setup/Punchline Escalation Carlton · Hilary: Boo! Get off the stage! We want our money back! Go back where you came from!
Club Owner: He'll be back, just not in here.
Club Owner Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Keith: I know I ain't getting heckled by no Jheri curl.
Keith Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Keith: You know, I ain't going to bother no Jheri curl, 'cause I know that... plastic bag makes so much noise at night, you're always irritable, huh?
Keith Escalation Observational Keith: Maybe I better speak to you in your language. Drip, drip, drip, drip.
Keith Escalation Physical/Slapstick Callback Keith: plastic bag makes so much noise at night, you're always irritable, huh? Crumple, crumple. 'I cannot sleep!'
Keith Escalation Physical/Slapstick Keith: Sometime the phone is the best thing on the car. You could tell the car raggedy. Every time the phone ring, the car just cut off.
Keith Observational Escalation Keith: Black folks, we didn't know there was a recession... 'cause we been broke since the day before forever.
Keith Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Keith: You know, had that been a black mother, she'd have been proud. Pick up the phone, call her best friend, 'Girl, turn to Channel 2. My baby's on TV!'
Keith Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Keith: When a black man is gone, he's just gone. You don't see brothers talking about, 'Man, I just saw Marvin Gaye! He was at the mall!' 'How do you know?' 'I heard it through the grapevine.'
Keith Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Phil: Because I heard you already died a pretty horrible death.
Phil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Will: Knock, knock. - Who's there? - Amy Fisher. - Amy... - Bang!
Will Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Keith · Geoffrey: Okay, well, I got a tip for you. Tails is out. - So are you. There's the door.
Geoffrey: So are you. There's the door.
Geoffrey: Now, that's funny.
Geoffrey Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air