Which is your favourite punchline for the following joke: "It says here that a man gets run over every half hour in New York."
Just to give the background to the Jack Benny quote: Benny played a miserly character. On one radio episode, a robber confronts Benny with a gun and demands, "Your money or your life!" There is a long pause. Finally, Benny says, "I'm thinking! I'm thinking!" (Variously quoted.) Most of the radio audience got the joke from the pause. The eventual "I'm thinking! I'm thinking!" was for the benefit of the slower listeners.
In loving memory of Gilda Radner: "It says here that a man gets run over every half hour in New York. And now, with a commentary, is Miss Emily Litella." “That’s disgusting. I’m appalled. Where are the health authorities that are suppose to prevent something like this. What wrong with the water quality in New York? It used to be the best in the world, and now it’s no better than Tijuana. What do we pay so much in taxes for? Someone should do something about this. And why doesn’t this man take something? Why doesn’t he try Pepto Bismol or Imodium? If I had this problem I wouldn’t let it…” “Uh, Miss Litella, that was gets run over every half hour, not gets the runs every half hour.” “Ohhhhhh… Never mind.”
