Willie's dry response of "Then come on Tuesdays" captures the veteran comic's determination to have the last word.
He was rather taken by the dry response, the first piece of humour from a grim afternoon.
Mr. Herzog's prompt and dry response: "Which was bad enough, let's face it".
"I think they may be confusing 'negative' with 'organised', and I'm not making any apologies for that," was the 53-year-old Scot's dry response.
When her daughter, feeling nauseated on the train to Utah, complains, "Don't touch me, I want to be sick by myself," her dry response isn't quite what you'd expect: "That's impossible".
Was I going to lie?" The easy thing would have been to do just that: give a dry response, sprinkling in a few clichés about disappointment and hope, and move on.
Ask Touitou why he thinks there is such a synergy between hip-hop and fashion, and he offers a typically dry response: "I believe there is no synergy at all.
In another reference to Emily she remarks that when she told her sister she was doing a show for Fox, the dry response was: "It might not get picked up".
I'm thinking of his dry response to southerners boasting about the quality of their college football ("it's as if your great-grandparents had a real eye for wide receivers!"), or when he endorses the proposition that the death of a little-known archduke justified two world wars.
To begin my search for answers, I called a prominent physician and asked him about the symptoms of forgetfulness and the blanks in conversations that were becoming all too common in women in their 50s and his response was a quick and dry response, "Don't worry, they are not signs of imminent madness.
