In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a… — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Just like Black Bottom,” Passalos agreed. “Black Bottom?” Leo resisted the urge to jump at the dwarfs’ feet again. He was sure… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The punch line is ‘knock the morale of an employee and organizational productivity is punctured’.” — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here. He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
“Even if I hadn’t a gag of magic in my mouth, I wouldn’t have dared spoken. Tristan peered at me as though… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
Well, in theory, we're both millionaires, but in reality, we live with a bunch of whores. -Allie's father (delivering the punch line… — The Notebook Copy Share Image