Quotes About Wit

Christopher said to himself that only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

I'm a big fan of saying the thing that is not necessarily sincere or earnest, but definitely honest.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

Because I started my career in improv, performing with Second City and the Ace Trucking Company, I always enjoy being in situations where - as an actor - you have to think fast & be light on your feet.

I would describe my comedy as my skewed comic perception of life.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted.

I love all those stupid, cheesy chat-up lines like 'Did God take the stars out of the sky and put them into your eyes?' But I never get chatted up.

Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have to be intelligent to get it. Like the Marx brothers. I love it.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?" "A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.

I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to Tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not.

I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

his facetious grace in writing," and much else.

That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.