1.   It was a bit of a running gag in the show.

2.   An ABC sitcom using Seinfeld as a running gag for its season finale?

3.   Another running gag is how the brothers of famous stars run in packs.

4.   Angling became a running gag.

5.   As a running gag, Moore films a succession of publicists squirming at his politics and penchant for abruptly changing the schedule.

6.   A flubbed line becomes a running gag throughout the show, supposedly getting funnier with each repetition.

7.   A running gag about the failure of the Millennium Falcon to shift into hyperdrive when danger threatens never wears out its welcome.

8.   A running gag in the film is that throughout its sordid history the hapless, talentless group keeps losing drummers to mysterious circumstances.

9.   Fetchingly danced by Vanya Verikosa, the solo incorporated a running gag with the kind of white handkerchief that features in such folk dances.

10.   Gay icon of adoration Streisand keeps getting skewered and Rudnick keeps the running gag funny to the final fade-out.