Quotes About Punchline

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Reacher nodded. He said, "Anything else you can tell me?" Mortimer went quiet so long Reacher thought maybe he had fallen into a geriatric coma. Or died. But then he moved. He raised the same bent and bony hand. This time not a warning. This time an appeal for attention. Like a comedian calming a crowd, ahead of a punch line.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.

I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.

A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.

The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

I'm a comedian. I want you to laugh. That's my main goal. I punch things up to get things tighter, quicker and get you to the joke faster.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.

Fate was a bitch, but she always had a wicked sense of humor. Today, he was her punch line. Tomorrow, she'd be laughing at them. -Darling's thoughts

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.

How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.

Victoria Wood's 'Dinnerladies' is just exceptionally written; every single line is a setup or a punchline.

Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.

Episodes. Like depression is a sitcom with a fun punch line each time. Or a TV box set loaded with cliffhangers. The only cliffhanger in my life is Will I ever get rid of this shit? and believe me, it gets pretty monotonous.

What happened to the pope when he went to Mount Olive? Popeye almost killed him!

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.