You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.
Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.
The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.
As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.