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Point of a joke
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punchline
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Punchline is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by David Seltzer and stars Tom Hanks as a talented young comic who helps a housewife, played by Sally Field who wants to break into stand-up comedy .
Usage examples of punchline.
His grifter pretends to be a time traveler, and pulls off a stinga lot crummier sting than the beauty I put together, by the way: it never woulda worked in real lifeand then the punchline is, the real time travelers hear he's blowing their cover, and they come boil his brain.
Indeed, with multiple screenwriters scrubbing the individuality from almost every project (thirty-six, I'm told, worked on the execrable Mission to Mars), an industry-wide aesthetic funded by a marketing sensibility, and the sublimation of character and story to special effects and high concept (a notion best expressed by the punchline to an old joke: She's the Pope, he's a chimp -- they're cops!
With his incredibly tortuous set-ups and his corny voice and his Paleozoic punchlines, we all fall down laughing.
With his incredibly tortuous set-ups and his corny voice and - his Paleozoic punchlines, we all fall down laughing.
And laughing like a crazy man, he shouts, 'So rigor mortis could set hit' Then laughs so hard he collapsed on the bloody deck and two elves had to help him to Bis cabin, him hootin' and shoutin' the damn fool punchline all the way.
I figured, here we go, it's one of those shaggy dog stories with a lousy punchline and it takes years to tell, and the kid's laughter was only the first part of it.
It was, as far as they were concerned, a big shaggy-dog story with a duff punchline.