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My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. -- David Mamet
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way. -- Jerry Stiller
I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife. -- Al Madrigal
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical. -- Norm MacDonald
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. -- Mindy McCready
I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line. -- Demetri Martin
My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them. -- Roz Chast
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a punch line. -- Kapil Sharma
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience. -- Sylvester McCoy
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. -- Stephen Greenblatt
When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.' -- Mark Waters
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke. -- Brian P. Cleary
If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. -- Buddy Hackett
I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line. -- Roman Polanski
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. -- Martha Plimpton
Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. -- Buddy Hackett
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. -- Steve Martin
One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were doing everything they could politically to turn him into a punch line post-Chappaquiddick. And the idea of Ted Kennedy - rather than the actual man - dominated his political legacy through the early '90s. -- Chuck Todd
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there? -- Vince Lombardi
If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line. -- Louise Erdrich
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. -- Carrie Fisher
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way -- Jerry Stiller
The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot! -- Brian Spellman
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. -- Edward Abbey
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke. -- Maureen Johnson
When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself. -- Franklyn Ajaye
Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -- Stephenie Meyer
I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing. -- Mitch Hedberg
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. -- Phyllis Diller
When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes. -- Dave Barry
A cute girl, a pissed off Were-spider, and an occult boulnty hunter carrying a small arsenal walk into a bar...I bet this joke was gonna have one helluva punch line." -- James R. Tuck
If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line. -- Robert Patrick
Shame about how we're gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It's the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is "sodomy''. -- John Green

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