Punchlines Quotes - Page 2

• I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

  David Cross

  Thinking, Hopefully, Stills

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

  Norm MacDonald

  Real, Trying, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part.

  Kathy Griffin

  Forgiving, Different, Clubs

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. February 11, 1998.

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• One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.

  Bruno Heller

  Running, Fun, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Drawing, Cartoon, Want

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jokes

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.138, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

  Amy Winehouse

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Laughing, Jokes

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• My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Laughing, Progression

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• But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

  Anne Ursu

  Space, Feelings, Gone

  Anne Ursu, Eric Fortune (2007). “The Shadow Thieves”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Loss, Laughing, Matter

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• I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Cheer, Character, Gay

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