Punchlines that are funny without the joke?

I was talking to a friend and happened to mention a Simpson’s episode where:Its a wedding, someone points a video camera at Krusty and says, “hey Krusty, be funny!” So he says “Ok, a guy walks into a bar with a 1ft tall man and a tiny piano, - oh wait, cant tell that one in front of the kids!”
I found this funny because I know the joke, and because it made me realize some punch lines are funny without the joke. Two examples I can think of are

  • “do you think I would have wished for a 12 inch pianist?”
  • the guy with no arms and no legs says “how do you think I rang the doorbell?”

Do any others come to mind?

So the doctor says “there’s my thermometer! Now where the heck did my pen go?”

“What you mean we, white man?”

“Now where’s that ugly woman who needs her tonails clipped?”

“and the husband says ‘You’re embarassed? I’m the one sitting here with three dinner rolls shoved up his ass!’”

“No, Silver! Posse!”

Thought of one more…
“OK, but when you pull that thing out, it better have numbers on it!”

“Hey, wait a minute. That’s not a duck”

“The Aristocrats!”

Penis van Lesbian!
It’s so much funnier without the setup…

“Wrecked 'em? Darn near killed 'em!”

“$10, same as downtown.”

Because goose doesn’t rhyme

Dem Fokkers was Messerschmidts!

Ok, some of these punchlines I’ve never heard before. Some people are going to have to put the jokes in spoiler boxes for those of use who are not familiar. I REALLY want to hear some of these jokes… if they even ARE jokes.

Everybody.

$2,500.05 for selling your body? Who gave you the nickel?

Kinda vague in the OP–are you looking for the punchlines to jokes you know which are funny because you know the joke, or are funny even if you don’t know the joke?

'cause I can come up with punchlines to commonly-known jokes all day long, and if somebody hasn’t heard them, they’re not going to be too funny.

“Nah, we need the eggs.”
“We haven’t heard that one before.”
“What? and leave show business?”
“Okay, but I’m only going to take out enough to win.”

:rolleyes:

The true challenge lies in coming up with a punchline that’s funny all by itself, and not because it’s a one-line joke, like “Why do they serve French Bread in Italian restaurants?”

Wrecked 'em? Damn near killed 'im!

For those who are dying to know anyway:

This was the name of an aspiring actor. When the man was told it sounded too formal, he changed it to the breezier Dick Van Dyke.

That was even funnier seven posts ago :smiley: