Comedy Quote by Jack Ketchum

This is why Jessica Biel is a successful actress: because, despite the punchlines, you know how to tell a joke.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I can't get through a joke without making a mistake, or giving away the punchline.

— Rebecca Front

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in…

— Steve Allen

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

— Ron White

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

— Norm MacDonald

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

— Cass McCombs

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

— David Mitchell

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

— Virginia Woolf

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way

— Jerry Stiller

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line…

— Janet Fitch

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes…

— Ernest Renan