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punch line
(redirected from gag line)

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punch line
the culminating part of a joke, funny story, etc., that gives it its humorous or dramatic point


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The irony of this was not lost on Barton, who said that he was "enough of an adman to appreciate a terrific gag line when I hear one.
That's because, of course, there's some life left in the old boy - and ``juicy's'' about the only gag line in director Stephen Sommers' script that has any life as well.
Indeed, ``MiB'' has only one, throwaway gag line, ad-libbed by Smith himself, that acknowledges the actor's color.
 
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