Quotes About Wit

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Wit is thought to be a quality rare in comedians. It is so natural to suppose that persons who spend their lives in showing things on the outside have nothing within.

Cohen was so shallow it was almost a talent.

If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit.

Reporters, in the hope of eliciting a witticism, were always asking him for comments on the news of the day. They were not always successful. Asked to comment on a Papal message, he replied, "The overpowering unimportance of this makes me speechless." Asked what was the greatest problem confronting the American people, he replied, "How to dodge a bicycle.

What is the difference between a fox and a pig? About five drinks.

What do you get when you cross a donkey with an onion? A piece of ass that brings tears to your eyes.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy.

I have fun with words.

Putting any situation through our comedy lens always goes on in our heads.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

I'm actually hilarious.

Mindy Kaling is so smart and hilarious.

I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.