Always Quote by Norm MacDonald

I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I…

— Norm MacDonald

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It does not mat­ter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Steve Allen

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

— Jerry Stiller

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can…

— Matt LeBlanc

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

— Rebecca Front

I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.

— John Cameron Mitchell

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have…

— Robert Mankoff

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading…

— Grant Hart

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it…

— T.I

Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

— Demetri Martin