Pioneering Excellence In The Field of Delayed Punchlines (2025) - Bazball

My annual award for the best comedy moment. This year: it's 2025

Bazball has already won one of these awards, back in 2022, in a pre-newsletter era, when I took what I still feel, three years later, was a pretty nuanced and fair look at the entire phenomenon. Especially considering it was in the framework of a stupid made-up comedy award that I was giving it.

I reflected upon my own Bazball scepticism and where I’d se…