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Language jokes with Emo Philips.
wikipedia/Emo_Philips: Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences.
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part.
Example: “Take my wife — please.” — Henny Youngman
Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that human beings process language one word at a time.
Example: “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” — Groucho Marx