Quotes About Wit

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

Bobby Heenan is the single funniest man that God ever put on this earth.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I don't mean to be funny.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

She told me the French expression [Esprit de l'escalier]—the spirit of the staircase—for the voice that catches up with you, minutes after the fact, to make fun of whatever you said and come up with the perfect answer you didn't think of. We even had our own code phrase: SOS, we called it.

Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed," the Duke said.

Getting up and drawing a Venn diagram is a great way to appear smart. It doesn't matter if your Venn diagram is wildly inaccurate, in fact, the more inaccurate the better.

There's a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.

Nobody has proved quite as adept as laughing at himself as former President George W. Bush, who willingly conceded to being a class clown, even as a candidate in 1999.

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.

Let's face it, I'm not winning a fight with anybody - unless it's against someone like Larry David.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

Playing with me again," he teased. "Don't you worry that you're biting off more than you can chew, little girl?" "Aren't you?" she asked. He groaned. "I know I am." And she laughed at him. As