Quotes About Wit

If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

Funny is the world I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested.

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.

Boruc is nuts. He is a very good friend of mine, and so I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying he's a nutter. He really is crazy.

A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him.

A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.

You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.

Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.

Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

Mom, said Peter, nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about. Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." "Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.