| The film's punchline is also a beaut, all the more so because it's tactfully handled, and you never see it coming. |
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| I spent hours folding the back pages just right so I could see the punchline to a joke that always poked fun at our society. |
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| That said, we all agree that a gag works best when the punchline is not telegraphed, and when the comedian's patter at least feigns originality. |
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| However, if the punchline is spectacular, then the joke could be told by someone dead, and it would still work out alright. |
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| Part of the reason why this series works so well is that it is based in character and craft, not the instant joke or the jerky punchline. |
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| If you know the novel, you'll know that this confrontation is the punchline of the story. |
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| Benz is easy and confident on stage, an actor who knows how to tell a story and make it roll with a wink and a punchline at just the right spot. |
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| The audience, after all, is rooting for her before the first punchline has tripped from her lips. |
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| They have a house in Passaic, the kind of town which serves as a punchline in American jokes. |
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| Never go for the subtle quip when the goofy sledgehammer punchline will do. |
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| At my every punchline the nervous titters grow fewer, the expressions in the front row more furrowed and quizzical. |
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| The punchline is that no matter how many times this gets plainly shown to be true, the halfwits keep on using it. |
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| In fact, the back was so far away from the stage, a time delay on the punchline created a wave of laughter. |
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| He tells jokes pretty well, though he could do with easing up on the old self-satisfied smirk after the punchline. |
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| He can take his time getting to the 'gag' bit because the audience know that when it comes it will be a killer of a punchline. |
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| This has the benefit of being a double-meaning punchline which adds flavor to both the story of a watch and the premise that you were jesting with them. |
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| The three lines served to lay bare a story's structure, consisting of a powerful beginning, a short development and a surprising punchline. |
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| It turns Italy into a backlot and its history into a punchline. |
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| Instead, they will be at best a stale and bitter punchline of our times and then fade, unloved, into obscurity. |
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| Not exactly a salty punchline. Charles Darwin was intrigued by polymorphism in general and it still fascinates evolutionary biologists. |
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| Why, oh why, did the writer of the standfirst give away the punchline? |
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| The punchline is that someone advises you to throw yourself out of a helicopter. |
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| The punchline came too quickly and they felt I hadn't given them permission to laugh yet. |
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| You'd get the first part on one panel then the punchline at the end of the journey. |
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| He concluded by saying that he found a great deal of pleasure in knowing that somewhere out there was a man who could tell the exact same story but didn't have the punchline. |
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| Some immediately treated the young rapper as a punchline, turning his awkward posture in the photo into a meme. |
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| The problem was that its punchline contained a certain four-letter word beginning with the letter that designates a failing grade. |
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| The standout punchline was wisely saved to close out the opening monologue. |
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| Criticisms of white people, and especially insinuating that they are crazy, have to come with a punchline. |
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| The carnie is no longer a punchline for a joke but a vanishing breed of vagabond that triggers wanderlust nostalgia, not thoughts of syphilis and criminal misdeeds. |
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| There's a Russian joke about a number of Presidents and Soviet leaders travelling by train, and the punchline includes the very words glasnost and Gorbachev. |
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| The idea is to associate a cover, placed over the neck of the bottles, with a film wrapping using a traditional shrinkwrapping and including a pre-cut punchline. |
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| As he delivers the punchline, the 77-year-old Hockney howls like he's heard it for the first time: a throaty roar that culminates in a hard-earned smoker's wheeze. |
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| What tuition fees did to Nick Clegg, this leadership U-turn is already doing to Farage, turning him into a human punchline who will never be believed again. |
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| He gets tongue-tied talking about how great he feels when he comes up with a trippy image, a cracking rhyme, a tense punchline, the mute, beleaguered hoodlum society had made him into beginning to make a living. |
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