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• ___ order

• ___ reflex

• ___ rule

• ___ rule (lip sealer)

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• (What an awful joke!)

• [Awful!]

• [blech!]

• [Ick!]

• [That's awful!]

• [Yuck... that's awful!]

• ___ me with a spoon!

• A bit of trickery

• Berle bit

• Berle pearl

• Bit of a comic

• Bit of comedy

• Bit of horseplay

• Bit of humor

• Bob Hope bit

• Boffo producer

• Borscht belt bit

• Caper

• Choke

• Choke on a joke

• Choke or joke

• Comedian's bit

• Comedian's offering, such as this puzzle's quip

• Comedic unit

• Comedy bit

• Comedy club routine

• Comedy-routine tidbit

• Comic bit

• Comic routine

• Comic's one-liner

• Comic's stock-in-trade

• Contrived horseplay

• Conversation stopper

• Couch ___ (The Simpsons opening bit)

• Couch ___ (recurring visual opener on The Simpsons)

• Curtail one's freedom of speech

• Free speech obstacle

• Free speech suppressor

• Funny bit

• Funny line

• Handkerchief stuffed in the mouth, e.g.

• It may be running

• It'll shut you up

• It's a laugh

• Joke or choke

• Jokester's bit

• Jokey sort of gift

• Judicial order

• Kid

• Kind of gift

• Kind of law or order

• Kind of order

• Kind of order or reflex

• Kind of order or rule

• Kind of reflex

• Laugh-provoking act

• Leno monologue feature

• Leno output

• Monkeyshine

• Monologue unit

• Mort Sahl morsel

• Muffle

• Obstacle to free speech

• One that's hard to talk with

• One- liner

• One-liner, for one

• Order from the court

• Order in the court?

• Order to shut up

• Palindromic joke

• Palindromic prank

• Piece of shtick

• Practical joke

• Prank

• Prankster's bit

• Prankster's plan

• Pratfall, perhaps

• Pre-April 1 purchase

• Prevent from speaking

• Put-on

• Quick joke

• Quip

• React to a stench

• React to a stench, perhaps

• React to a tongue depressor

• Render speechless

• Respond to a really bad joke, maybe

• Restrain, in a way

• Rib-tickler

• Routine unit

• Scream stifler

• Shut up

• Silence

• Sitcom joke

• Skit bit

• Skit part

• Slapstick bit

• Something funny

• Speech stopper

• Squelch

• Squirting flower or dribble glass

• Stage joke

• Stand-up bit

• Stand-up comedian's forte

• Stand-up delivery

• Stand-up standard

• Stand-up staple

• Stifle

• Stunt, to stuntmen

• Suffer through the stench, maybe

• Synonym of choke and joke

• Tongue represser

• Type of order

• Viral video premise

• Wisecrack

• Word with law and order

• Youngman offering

• Zinger, for instance

• A humorous anecdote or remark

• Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting