Family Guy Christian Bale Spoof

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Originally Posted by jadedeath

It's not 'stones' as you put it.

It's lack of ability to write 22 minutes of jokes so instead it stretches out the 5 jokes that he does have into 5 minute long jokes to fill the time.

IE: Crappy writing.

Logan

Nope.

It's calling attention to itself by exaggerating the screen time for a single gag, thereby compounding the absurdity, and extending the laugh. This is a comedic principle that stretches way way back to the days of Jack Benny's radio show, and before.