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1 Stand-up is an art form full of control freaks, and most reliably funny stand-ups are poised performers who orchestrate laughs from the surprise and insight of their premises and punchlines.

2 It's more established, so no one thinks of it as the punchline of a joke, or an unmissable opportunity for men to ogle women's bums masquerading as a sport.

3 Just as it doesn't matter when you're telling a joke, and some idiot shouts out the punchline before you finish.

4 But I prefer to see it as a $5000 darkly comic joke, whose punchline is: you can buy space, but in the end, you can’t buy time.

5 In the process it became a household name, a punchline, but - above all - a highly respected addiction treatment center.

6 Seinfeld broke for a second to warn the audience, again: “The punchline of this joke is not going to get a laugh, I’m just telling you.”

7 The action sequences were tightly choreographed, ferocious and frequently as hilarious as the furious storm of punchline exchanges.

8 Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like “Parents hated me” or “Las Vegas” or “No sex appeal.”

9 Politics turns siblings into punchlines, even when reality isn’t very funny.

10 His comedy depends so much on wordplay, and on punchlines that leave gaps for the audience to fill in.

11 Every story they told had a boisterous punchline between them; an outside observer could see that the common thread was about overcoming terribly tragic circumstances, but that was not the focus that day.

12 Dressed in black, stories find her jumping to her feet to deliver the punchline.

13 It’s not really a surprise why: Much like cafeteria lunches or liver and onions, brussels became a popular culinary punchline among the jungle gym set.

14 Max tries to hold back, tries to avoid taking every punchline they set him up for, tries not to have his feelings hurt.

15 Still running — deadline Monday night, July 1: our contest for jokes with anagrams in the punchline.

16 The box office prognosis is not good, but it’s already an industry punchline, following a farcical few years of repeated rescheduling and abruptly pulled release dates on the part of The Weinstein Company.

17 But I still, grudgingly, remember my enjoyment of Diana, the Fairytale Princess, a shiny white 80s hardcover with naïve sweet-shop illustrations which now, alas, look like the set-up for the punchline of a sick joke.

18 And although he sometimes lost track of what he was saying, his punchlines were always met with more cheers and applause.

19 So we learned it’s better to have the show live in the moment than to try and knock something out of the park with a punchline.

20 They will also find their rhythms: a horror variant on comic timing, with a shriek in place of a punchline.

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