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Comedy Word Search
11 words · 12×12 grid
How to play: click (or tap) the first letter, drag to the last letter, then release. Words go in any direction, including backwards. Or download the PDF to solve on paper.
Find these words
TIMING is mostly silence. The pause before the PUNCHLINE is doing more work than the punchline, and a comedian who rushes it has thrown the whole thing away. SETUP, DEADPAN, CALLBACK, HECKLER. Everything in the grid is a craft term, not a joke.
A word find puzzle and a word search are the same thing. What changes from sheet to sheet is the list, and this list is comedy.
Frequently asked questions
What is a callback?
A joke from earlier in the set, brought back at the end, which rewards anyone who has been paying attention.
What does deadpan mean?
Delivering something absurd with a completely flat face, so the audience has to do the laughing entirely by themselves.
