Grillo's act consisted of rapid-fire jokes strung together with a line that later became his trademark: "It's crazy!
The show blends vulnerable realism with rapid-fire jokes between Rae's character, Issa, and her best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji).
Improv comedy often gets the benefit of an overly sympathetic audience, which tends to be impressed with rapid-fire jokes invented on the spot.
He handcuffs himself with the setting: five folks sitting around a table, with no opportunities for the physical comedy that can help rapid-fire jokes land.
He added a series of rapid-fire jokes about how bad off NBC is including: "It's so bad, 'The Biggest Loser' isn't just a TV show anymore; it's our new motto".
AT 61 years old, Yoshihiro Kariya displays the energy and flamboyance of someone half his age, delivering rapid-fire jokes as he paces the stage in a red tailcoat, his hair pulled back in a ponytail.
Mart Crowley's breakthrough 1968 comic drama about gay men at play may be filled with rapid-fire jokes, but it's really all about opening the veins of self-loathing and letting the pain flow until it floods the place.
Reworking Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" as an ode to socially awkward, technologically obsessed white guys is more than a chance for Weird Al to spit out rapid-fire jokes about Wikipedia and "Star Trek": it's a canny reminder that the uncool make up much of the audience for hard-core rap.
In many ways, the "Family Guy" episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" is typical of that audacious Fox animated comedy, teeming with rapid-fire jokes and willfully offensive non sequiturs about disabled animals, God, Nazis, bodily functions and the sexual habits of "Sesame Street" characters.
Most of the program's rapid-fire jokes involve subjects rarely treated in sitcoms: staples of "The PJs" include shtick involving police brutality, random crime, race war, the failed promise of Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty and, without doubt the unlikeliest running gag in TV history, the unresponsiveness of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The rapid-fire jokes run the gamut from delightful to embarrassing".
