In all this the intention was to avoid kitsch and creating a one-line joke.

Some are little more than one-line jokes stretched to the breaking point.

Suggesting aspects of both Surrealism and computerization, the work nonetheless has the effect of a one-line joke that never quite makes its point.

Then he made comic drawings accompanied by one-line jokes for popular publications.

They have a snap, crackle and pop that goes far beyond the one-line joke.

Where are the perky teen-agers and the one-line jokes?

It is also a fairly obvious and familiar one-line joke until the magical surprise ending, when the man spins atop the woman's raised arm.

The idea, lifted from a Buster Keaton film, is a one-line joke.

The Anderson act is noticeably short on one-line jokes.

His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes mixed with absurd elements and non sequiturs.