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Quotes About Banter

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.
~ Scott Avett
You're looking good today Bret. Very hot... hotter than Jemaine. You have a refined bone structure, while Jemaine's facial features are too deep set to be classically handsome.
~ Kristen Schaal
Oh, hey, kettle, I'm pot and wow, you're black." - Owen
~ Olivia Cunning, Tie Me
Well, the only reason we're friends is because you can rock a tweed suit, " she informed, tone mock serious. "So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Keepers
Leo, " Jason said, "you're weird.""Yeah, you tell me that a lot." Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!
~ Rick Riordan
He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.
~ Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
I'm coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!"-Skye yelling back to Hagan.
~ J.L. McCoy, The Original Sin
Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism.
~ Betsy Schow
Flirting is conversational chemistry.
~ Isaac Mizrahi
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
~ Janet Jackson
Lily laughed. "Merci du compliment!
~ Edith Wharton
Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'
~ Patton Oswalt
I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.
~ Ken Griffey Jr.
In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
How long does it take to make 'They Think It's All Over?' It's just laughing at each other and thinking, 'Aren't we clever?'
~ Ronnie Corbett
It's difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.
~ Ronnie Corbett
I'm always teasing and clowning around and laughing and in the locker room I tend to always have something to say.
~ Tyrus
I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
~ Leslie Jones
A lot of men are competitive about being funny.
~ Arden Myrin
Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
~ Orlando Bloom
Will she report what she told me?' 'No.' A corner of his mouth twitched. 'That's why I put up with you; you could have answered with fifty words and you did it with one.' 'I've often wondered. Now tell me why I put up with you.' 'That's beyond conjecture. ...
~ Rex Stout
room. The other cooks broke into chuckles. "Blasted cheek," Mr Angelo
~ Rhys Bowen
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You want a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?" Sully offered. "You don't have a stick," Will pointed out.
~ Richard Russo