Steve Martin Quotes

What If There Were No Punch Lines? What If There Were No Indicators? What If I Created Tension And Never Released It? What If I Headed For A Climax, But All I Delivered Was An Anticlimax? What Would The Audience Do With All That Tension? Theoretically, It Would Have To Come Out Sometime. But If I Kept Denying Them The Formality Of A Punch Line, The Audience Would Eventually Pick Their Own Place To Laugh, Essentially Out Of Desperation. This Type Of Laugh Seemed Stronger To Me, As They Would Be Laughing At Something They Chose, Rather Than Being Told Exactly When To Laugh.

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