Wendy Liebman is probably best known for her one liners that work by changing meaning halfway through the sentence. That's a pretty standard structure for jokes, but much of Liebman's material stands out as particularly bound within the sentence.Instead of a second sentence that explains a change in the meaning of "take my wife" or "…in my pajamas," Liebman just adds a phrase or a word or even half a word that completes the meaning differently from how you thought it was going to go. "…he really wanted me—to shut up." "I'm going out with a guy who has a five-year-old—mentality." "I have 3 older sisters. … My mother never said it, but I think she always wanted a boy—friend."
She has appeared on Carson, Letterman, Ferguson, Leno, Rosie O'Donnell, Kilborn, and all their shows. Her credits go on for so long that they need little mention.
Her tweets aren't all one-liners.
And it's recently come to my attention that she's got great taste in Twitter jokes.
Most Recent Tweet*:
Four Older Tweets:
- @ThirdGuy lol!
- I talk in my sleep according to my phone bill.
- I am all for same sex marriage! I draw the line at two-man luge though.
- I'm one of these people who gains weight if I just eat a whole cake.
*For the sake of relevance, I don't list ReTweets unless they have some comment from the person I'm talking about.
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