Quotes About Punchline

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

I don't have jokes that I can't defend.

A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.

That's a joke, son!

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Each joke suffers in comparison to its neighbors.

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.

I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

History is like a long, twisted joke. You never know when the punch line will come.

I was right in the middle of a story and leading to a punch line and then I just heard 'John John' and I just looked around. I could see someone in the shadows walking forward and he said 'John I can't find me seat lad, d'ya know where me seat is?' I looked at him and it was my uncle Dave.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

It does not mat­ter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.

"That's what." —She

Hey, Axi. What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?" I knew this joke—it was one of Robinson's standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, "I don't know. What?" "A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you and kill you, too.

Dude, estoy aqui por loco, no por pendejo, which was the punch line to the funniest Spanish joke I knew. Okay, the only one. Google it.

It's a mark of our political discourse that one of the significant nonpartisan achievements on behalf of American innovation got turned into a punch line because of something that Gore never quite said—that he "invented" the Internet.