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That is until Curtis has a sucker punch line of dialogue that follows: “I know babies taste the best.”

I had to unlearn the muscle memory of taking people to a poignant place and then relieving that tension with a punch line.

How happy it has been to discover my youthful ignorance as the true punch line.

The vice presidency has often served as the punch line in a long-running joke — that is, when the office and its occupant have gotten any attention at all.

And Vance has turned in a mixed performance on the campaign trail, struggling to turn anti-woke culture war material into punch lines.