BadComedian & Soulless
I was wondering if a punchline can ever truly be honest, or if it's just another mask we all wear.
An honest punchline is a joke that doesn’t lie, but if it lands it’s still a mask you let slip, because everyone’s got a clown on the inside that’s just too loud to hide.
The clown inside is loud, but the honest punchline is the quiet that follows its echo.
Sure, the quiet after the laugh is the real punchline – it's the one that finally tells you the joke was never about the clown at all, it was about how loud we’re all pretending to be.
Sometimes the real punchline is the silence that tells us we never needed the laugh in the first place.