| 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. |
| The audience, after all, is rooting for her before the first punchline has tripped from her lips. |
| They have a house in Passaic, the kind of town which serves as a punchline in American jokes. |
| However, if the punchline is spectacular, then the joke could be told by someone dead, and it would still work out alright. |
| The punchline is that no matter how many times this gets plainly shown to be true, the halfwits keep on using it. |
| At my every punchline the nervous titters grow fewer, the expressions in the front row more furrowed and quizzical. |
