Wednesday One-Liners Have a Two-Drink Minimum

Flyer guy: Smile, you're on Broadway! (singing) You're never fully dressed…when you're naked! (stops singing) So come to New York's best improvisational comedy club! Be there, or be someplace else!

–Times Square

Overheard by: gregumsdagreggy

Annoying man outside comedy club, to passerby: Do you like stand-up comedy? (passerby ignores him keeps walking) Do you like free alcohol? (passerby keeps walking) Do you like ignoring me? (passerby turns head and nods)

–Broadway

Overheard by: Wojo

Comedy show ticket salesman to couple: So, what are you two doing tonight…besides each other?

–Broadway & 49th St

Overheard by: Theo

Ticket guy to walking couple: Do you like comedy or do you just do each other? Maybe that's all you need.

–51st & 8th

Overheard by: PartyByNight

Street vendor: Want to see a comedy show for $10? Free drinks! Cheaper than crack cocaine!

–42nd St & 7th Ave

Overheard by: gradstudent

Comedy club flyer guy: Blah, blah, blah, take my flyer!

–Times Square

Overheard by: No flyer, but props for the delivery

Posted on January 13, 2015
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Wednesday One-Liner Swap

Lady on cell: She must have been humiliated by the parade of wives!

–Broadway & 72nd

Man to friend: Whenever I want to fuck my wife, she doesn't want to. But when I can't, she always wants to. I think she does it out of spite.

–12th St

(Elton John's Rocketman playing on radio) "I miss the Earth so much… I miss my wife…"
Barista: You don't miss your wife, Elton. You're gay!

–Small Coffee Shop, SoHo

Midget handing out fliers: Who likes comedy? (to man in striped shirt) Hey, do you like comedy? I like striped shirts, let's work something out here!
(man keeps walking)
Midget, yelling after him: No wonder your wife doesn't love you!

–Union Square Subway

30-something guy: Dude, that's so rude. Plus, she's going to be your wife soon, so you've got to stop calling her that.

–Hell's Kitchen

Posted on January 11, 2015
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He Did Turn a Crappy Sci-fi Role Into a Lucrative Career

Flyer girl: Macbeth with Patrick Stewart!
Tourist: Is that a magician?

–TKTS

Posted on January 1, 2015
Flyer people, Magic, Stupidity, Theater, Theater & Dance, Tourists

Actually, Mr. Dole, You Aren’t the President

A man hands a woman a brochure for erectile dysfunction.

Man: I’m not only the president, I’m also a client.

–MetroNorth Train

Overheard by: Mark

Posted on December 13, 2014
Flyer people, Idiots, Jobs & Careers, Men, Stupidity, Trains Not Subway, Women

Hell, with Patter Like That, You Can Open!

Comedy show guy: Would you folks like to go to stand-up comedy tonight?
Tourist group leader: Well, do we have to have to stand the whole time?

–43rd & Broadway

Overheard by: organizedchaos

Posted on December 4, 2014
Flyer people, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Stupidity, Tourists

Could You Call Ahead to the Pro-Choicers on 6th?

Environmentalist giving out fliers: Excuse me sir, do you care about helping our environment?
Man: Oh no thank you, I’m a Republican.

–14th & 5th

Overheard by: Dave

Posted on August 23, 2014
Activists, Animals & Nature, Default, Flyer people, Men, Offers and requests, Politics, Questions, The Village

Good Thing This Isn’t in a Frathouse

Flyer guy: Here.
Chick: No thanks.
Flyer guy: No? What the fuck you mean, “no”?

–Union Square

Posted on August 8, 2014
Anger Management, Flyer people, Union Square and East Village

The Only Thing Worse Is the Christians. Oh, Wait…

Pamphleteers: Take this pamphlet — we swear we aren’t fanatics!
Guy: I’m sure you aren’t, unlike those Jews for Jesus assholes.
Pamphleteer: We are from Jews for Jesus! [Guy walks away laughing.]

–St. Mark’s & 2nd

Overheard by: tired of those pamphlets

Posted on August 8, 2014
Flyer people, Religion, Union Square and East Village

You Can’t Make This Crap Up

An activist interrupts a group of yuppie chicks having a discussion.

Activist: Do you have a minute for gay rights?
Chick #1: Sorry.
Activist: Have a good day.

He leaves them to their conversation.

Chick #1: Then he’s been getting after me about how I’m selfish, and about how selfish I am.

–Union Square

Posted on July 16, 2014
Assholes, Flyer people, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Politics, Talking/Convos, Union Square and East Village, Yuppies

Towelie: I Am So Wednesday One-Linered Right Now

Wide-eyed woman on cell: Is it the drugs that are doing this to me?

–St Mark's & Ave A

Guy going superfast on a bike with eyes closed and feet on handlebars: Oh, man, I'm trippin'! Oh, god, I'm shroomin'!

–Delancey St

Professor: Take that Ritalin-Scotch-heroin cocktail… With a pop-tart!

–Pratt Institute

Overheard by: Denali

Flyer guy: Anyone want to help support my drug habit?

–Times Square

Girl with group of friends: You can be a responsible drug addict… I had two jobs and went to college.

–Jane & 4th St

Overheard by: M Tod

Barnard girl: So my grandparents gave me one of those Visa gift card things for $50 for Valentine's Day… What the fuck am I going to spend $50 on, if it's not drugs?

–The Diana Center, Barnard College

Stephen Colbert, after flubbing a line during filming: I'm high. (audience laughs) Don't blog that!

–Colbert Report Studios, 54th St

Overheard by: Allison

Posted on July 21, 2010
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Flyer people

Towelie: I Am So Wednesday One-Linered Right Now