Punchline Delivery Quotes

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

It is not necessary to have a good sense of humour personally to do comedy well.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

There's something about us as stand-ups that when we're on our feet, we feel more in control of the situation and in control of our bodies and our delivery.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.

And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.

I consider it, the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.

I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.