Send up of narrative trope...

September 6, 2014 11:22 PM

I've looked for the answer to this for a couple of years with no success, so hopefully you all can help. This was from a comedy album of some sort (I think it was SCTV related) but person A is talking to Person B and sets up some story like "Hey B, do you remember the time...?" with some humorous one sentence scenario set up.

Then person B responds "Oh yeah, I remember that very well." And then person A says "Oh, so there's no need to relate the story again." And that's the end of the bit, the joke being that person A never explains the joke from the scenario.

posted by newper to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

I'm thinking there was a moment like that on the Bob and Doug album, or maybe in one of their SCTV sketches?
posted by Crane Shot at 12:38 AM on September 7, 2014

I am not a rhetorician but to me this is a bit like a non-sequitur with a touch of apophasis/paralipsis.
posted by safetyfork at 6:53 AM on September 7, 2014