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“One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.”

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Author:Gene Weingarten

“I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.”

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Author:Billy Connolly

“At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.”

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Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.”

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Author:Mose Allison

“We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.”

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Author:George Pataki

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

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Author:Mike Stud

“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.”

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Author:Mike Stud

“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.”

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Author:Amy Winehouse

“Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.”

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Author:Chamillionaire

“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.”

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Author:Raymond Pettibon

“It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“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.”

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Author:Bruno Heller

“Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.”

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Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“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.”

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Author:Kathy Griffin

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

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Author:Cass McCombs

“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.”

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Author:David Cross

“I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.”

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Author:Timothy L. O'Brien

“I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

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

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Author: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 could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”

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Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“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.”

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Book:The Shadow Thieves

Source: The Shadow Thieves

“Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”

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Book:Postcards From the Edge

Source: Postcards From the Edge

“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.”

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Author:Jack Ketchum

“Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.”

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Book:The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007

Source: The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007

“Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'”

“Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.”

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Author:Larry David

“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.”

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Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“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.”

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Author:Leslie Nielsen

“I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.”

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Author:Lydia Lunch

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