punch line

“They say horror and comedy is so similar in the filmmaking that they both have setup, expectations rising, then there’s a punch line,” he continued.

They had to train with a gun, for example, and, more important, let go of the need for punch line.

But his chief concern was injecting soul into the punch lines.

“The end,” Feghali delivered her punch line as she read the story for a smaller group a while later.

I’m like, “Guys, that’s a slap in the face to when I’m putting three, four hours in at Starbucks, working on the writing and making sure the punch lines are all there.”