Quotes About Wit

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

I never craved having people leave a show saying, 'He's really intelligent, isn't he?' I didn't watch Tommy Cooper and think, 'Oh, he's so bright.' He just made me laugh.

Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comic who I believe is one of the finest in the world.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

I'm tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I think that there's always a time to be tongue-in-cheek, and there's always time for humor, but there's a time to be serious and a time for emotional content.

Too clever is dumb.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

(Sarcasm is not the lowest form of wit, It is an art form dismissed by those too stupid to master it)

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

No one says too much and what is said is only light-hearted and bantering because we want to preserve our advantage over fear. Fear like a bear in the cave of banter. We're