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. Told with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest sketches on television, and lays bare the heart and humor of a hardworking guywith a face you can’t help but want to punch.' 4.5 stars, rounded up to 5 stars. 18 likes, 0 comments - parxcasino on Instagram: 'Due to circumstances outside of our control, the Colin Jost show at Parx Casino on Friday April 2. A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest. 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. Youll also discover things about Colin that will surprise and confuse you.

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. 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