But more often than not, it translates to standing on a collective soapbox, elbowing each other for room, in the hopes of being credited with delivering the cleverest one-liner or reaction.
He's an old-fashioned joke writer, as anyone who follows him on Twitter (@GaryDelaney) will know; smart, clever one-liners that rely on wordplay or oblique observations that delight and surprise so much that you may actually squeal aloud.
Meanwhile, Dryhurst and Rogers picked through the social media trails of people in the audience (presumably selected from the event's Facebook page), commenting on our online lives with clever one-liners that were projected on a screen behind them.
The show does offer some clever one-liners.
There are some clever one-liners, but much of the humor is of the sitcom variety.
Ms. Bader provides some clever one-liners, but much of the humor is of the sitcom variety.
Shot against white backdrops that play up their plastic material, these odd bits of foliage are clever one-liners, more decorative than subversive.
They don't even get the clever one-liners or villain's death-postponing, true-motive-revealing monologue that all thriller fans — regardless of race — have come to anticipate as genre traits.
Having established herself in the world of clever one-liners and roundhouse kicks, Ms. Liu said she longed for meatier roles, ones that do not necessarily involve hours spent in the gym.
