That was quite a build-up for such a puny punch line.

While explaining a punchline might initially kill the joke, Roberts claims it can shed light on the use of humour in language and help students remember the gag for future use.

The women are a phenomenon; the men are a punchline.

(It didn’t help when Microsoft relaunched its Bing search engine with OpenAI’s technology inside, instantly ending Bing’s decade-long run as a punchline.)

The final, the Munich-based liberal newspaper writes, was a “fitting punchline” to a great tournament.

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