Can't you imagine Joan Rivers tossing off this one-liner by the unforgettable Belle Barth? Referring to the wedding-night of a marriage between a (much) older woman and a (much) younger man, Belle Barth said: She's screaming ""It hurts, it hurts"" and he's holding on to the bedposts to keep from falling in ... Now I ask you - do you agree that the actual rhythm of that one-liner is very close to the kinds of rhythms that Joan Rivers used in hers? If so, can you think of one-liners you've heard that have the same basic rhythm? I think maybe we need a dissertation on this topic from some PhD candidate somewhere