I'm taking an art class, and the nude model just quit. Because I like to finger paint.

Wendy Liebman is an American stand-up comedian known for tightly constructed one-liners and a persona that turns everyday situations into quick, surprising reversals. This joke belongs to her observational style: it begins with a plausible, mundane setup (taking an art class with a nude model) and then pivots to an unexpected, slightly risqué punchline. The humor relies on the audience’s familiarity with life-drawing classes and with “finger painting” as a childish, innocent activity—then colliding that innocence with the adult context of a nude model. I can’t reliably place the line in a specific recorded set, album, or broadcast without risking misattribution.

The joke plays on double meaning and incongruity. “Finger paint” is normally associated with children, messiness, and harmless creativity, but in the context of a nude model it becomes a euphemistic suggestion of inappropriate touching. The model “quitting” implies the speaker’s behavior crossed a boundary, and the punchline retroactively reframes the initial statement from earnest art-student talk into a confession of social cluelessness (or deliberate mischief). Like much of Liebman’s work, the line compresses a full comic narrative—setup, escalation, and twist—into a single sentence, using the audience’s assumptions to generate the surprise.