Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not much for setup... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife. — Al Madrigal Copy Share Image
“It does not matter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way — Jerry Stiller 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
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… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The situation was so ridiculously bad it could have been the punch line of a joke, and if I hadn’t been the… — Rachel Bach Copy Share Image
Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
Punch line queen no boxer though. Might pull up in a Porsche no Boxter though. Tell a hater; Yo, dont you got… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Punch line queen no boxer though. Might pull up in a Porsche no Boxter though. Tell a hater; Yo, dont you got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as outlining is concerned, I don't outline humor. I might right down a word or two to remind myself of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I've always felt that there's a lot of similarity between doing a comedy and doing a scary movie because jokes and scares… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“A wink and a smirk walk into a bar, and the bartender asked them what they were drinking, when all of the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk into a bar, you wait for the punch line. At Private Eye, when… — E.J. Stevens Copy Share Image
For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think… — Humphrey Lyttelton Copy Share Image
The Punch Line is one of the best clubs in the world. It's an intimidating place if you're a younger comic, but… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,… — Mary Kay Zuravleff Copy Share Image
“FRECK: (Casually) I bought a methedrine plant today. BARRIS: (With a snotty expression on his face) Methedrine is a benny, like speed;… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it?… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“There are times when you've personally known things to misfire--the sentence that fell badly, the dull gift, slapdash comment, hobbled punch line,… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“One story was about a deaf man who was driving in the country, when safety bars were lowered across the road at… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“We stare at each other pop-eyed over the burlap sack and laugh as if we're afraid to stop. Somebody needs to say… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“I went to the doctor," said the woman next to Ethel. "I said to him, 'I've got an itchy twat.'" [...] She… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“In 2014, when he first seriously began to consider running for president, Melania was one of the few who thought it was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what… — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
“near-deserted parking lot, both buildings looking freshly painted and hopeful for a marina in which there were no yachts. The biggest boat… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough;… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But I actually did change Mary-Kate’s and Ashley’s diapers once. And that was four years ago. Ashley came up with the punch… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should… — Mitch Hedberg 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
I had a couple of years in the mid-2000s where it was really confusing to me. I was like, 'Why is our… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“A cute girl, a pissed off Were-spider, and an occult boulnty hunter carrying a small arsenal walt into a bar... I bet… — James R. Tuck Copy Share Image
“We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
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