Even then, the magical pause can strengthen the
punch line. When used before the
punch line, a pause sets up the anticipation of "here comes the funny stuff!" Anticipation is a form of tension.
And yet the source of Chatkupt's protagonist's inner agony is also a
punch line in itself, and a bitter one, given the complexity of our enduring and often unanswered quests--from Googling WikiLeaks to praying to an invisible god--to understand political machinations, cosmic clockwork, or the workings of the divine.
Or is it one of those scenarios where the reader is supposed to suggest a funny caption or
punch line?
The vehicle will be sold under the
punch line of 'SHIFT_hospitality', and will be based on a newly developed 'D' platform.
After the greatest late-season collapse in the history of baseball, the Metropolitans are a
punch line on late-night talk shows.
The
punch line, as reported by Loveless and Hess, is that smaller classes and smaller schools "hold promise in certain times and places," but that implementing them at large scale "is likely to prove shortsighted and wasteful." The reasons are rather obvious, if illuminated by the volume's research papers: Smaller classes require more teachers, which makes improving teacher quality a lot tougher; both reforms require retrofitted facilities, a hugely expensive undertaking.
As the holy man panics, he is interrupted by the
punch line: 'Smile!
In one test of choosing the correct
punch line to a joke, 68% of the 29 alcoholics chose correctly, compared with 92% of the 29 nonalcoholic subjects.
"You put a little Southern drawl on it and it's George Bush," marvels Jennifer Childs, talking about a possible
punch line in 1812 Productions's This Is the Week That Is, running Dec.
There were times throughout the play when I was close to tears and others when I could feel the laughter gurgling in my stomach before a
punch line had even been said.