Punchline

Tom's a terrible joke teller, because he often forgets the punchline.

It's hard to get to the punchline of a joke when you're laughing so hard that you can barely breathe!

The punchline comes at the end.

Tom is a terrible joke teller, because he often forgets the punchline.

Hearing those same events be made into a punchline for the monologue on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ makes them seem less dire.

It's a punchline that sends every 12-year-old boy into a fit of giggles.

Arguably, without Jones, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-74) would not have revolutionised British TV comedy. He was key in developing the show’s distinctively trippy, stream-of-consciousness format, where each surreal set-up (the Lumberjack Song, the upper-class twit of the year show, the dead parrot, or the fish-slapping dance) flowed into the next, unpunctuated by punchlines.