Converse of object

• crack: Matt thinks it makes Brian pretty dull - he even turned down a cracking gag for his wedding speech.

• run: There is a kind of running gag in the teacher's unending struggle to motivate his pupils.

• wear: The protestors wore gags in a silent protest over being silenced.

• write: Lucy Porter has written gags for some of our best known comedians.

Adjective modifier

• throwaway: Nowadays, of course, the Comic Relief joke is to use the inclusion of a high profile celebrity as a throwaway gag.

• topical: To paraphrase a topical gag, City gave a David Blaine 2nd half display, they could not get away from their box.

• hilarious: This hilarious gag brings me neatly on to my subject for September - leeks.

• visual: A hilarious action comedy from 1926 with incredible visual gags.

• funny: In fact most of the funniest gags are in the trailers!

• verbal: Even the latest episodes contain priceless visual and verbal gags to rival the best that has gone before.

Modifies a noun

• reel: The next bonus material item, the 7 minute Evans gag reel, is a true gem.

• gift: He'd bought the antique harness from a junk shop as a gag gift for a friend's wedding.

• writer: Woody began his career in the mid-Fifties as a gag writer, before commencing his own stand up act in the early 60s.

Noun used with modifier

• fart: But then he'll veer off at a tangent, or throw in a fart gag and the feeling is lost.

• knob: SM: Tell them a knob gag or something.

• sight: Then he tried the sight gag - going for a clinch with Gaby in a prop hospital bed.

• mouth: They may " mouth gag " or " neck stretch " in an attempt to regurgitate.

Possessives

• dart: Until next time, Ben ' The Yellow Dart ' Lancaster don't get the ' yellow dart ' gag?