Quotes About Punchline

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

I was trying to get a handle on Blindsight; I entertained and discarded any number of adaptive functions in search of that grand thematic punchline that would end the book. Yes, my protagonist would realize, self-awareness is absolutely essential because of X. The problem was, I couldn't find an X that stood up under scrutiny; and it took me far too long to realize that Consciousness is good for nothing at all was the scariest and most existentially gut-churning punchline imaginable.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

I think as a blonde person with make-up on, you're automatically the punchline to the joke.

Cocaine jokes should just be one liners.

I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.

Man went into a bar, he only had one arm. Guy sitting next to him said 'Hey, you've got your sleeve in my drink', man replied, 'There's no arm in it'

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

I definitely have friends who gave me a tag for a joke I already had. Like, 'Here's another line.' A tag is, 'Oooooh, it's an industry term.' It's like, there's the punchline, and a tag is like a secondary punchline.

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

That got a big laugh. For the rest of the journey, whenever there was a pause or the mood dipped, someone would repeat the punchline and everyone would laugh. This went on until the garrotting in the toilet.

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "I don't know. How many?" "Eight." "Why?" "Oh, stop overanalyzing it.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Rita switched gears to her favorite topic—sex. Her philosophy: What a mess, but so pleasurable. "Speaking of confessions, tell us, have you and Jack been intimate again?" I cringed. "When I had your cousins, the doctahs told us not to have relations with our husbands for six weeks!" "So we had to call our boyfriends!" Bernice quipped. "You stole my punch line!" Rita exploded.

telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane?