Now I just want to kick him in the balls.Larry David If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy. I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Given the Guardian article was a music review, it seemed plausible the phrase is a corruption of 'sockable face', in the song 'Sockable Face Club', from the album Rapid City Muscle Car released by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies in 1994, but that's speculative, and the novel reference makes it seem slightly less likely. Book Description: In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating. That's all moot, however, since the first (indexed) reference I could locate to the phrase itself being published is well before either, in a JGuardian article by Alexis Petridis: 'Ben Elton's punchable face singing along to All You Need is Love', and FumbleFingers found one even earlier (in the comments), in a 1995 book, Edsel: a Novel of Detroit. A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest. Youll also discover things about Jost that will surprise and confuse you, like how Jimmy Buffett saved his life, how Czech teenagers attacked him with. Youll go behind the scenes at SNL (where hes written some of the most iconic sketches and characters of the past fifteen years) and Weekend Update (wheres.

In any case, a check on mspaintadventures tells us that page was first published on July 2, 2009, and all the tLA episodes came out in 2008 or earlier, so if tLA did use it, you're correct that it didn't come from MPA. Youll also discover things about Colin that will surprise and confuse you. I'm just handling 'punchable face' and taking the rest as decorative.īased on transcript research (Google site:/wiki/Transcript punchable - proper link to google site search omitted due to lack of rep), your memory regarding tLA may be faulty (or the transcripts are).

You have a very punchable face