Quotes About Wordplay

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world.

One of Lindon's amusing word-unit palindromes reads: Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl. Other palindromes are symmetric with respect to back-to-front reading letter by letter-Able was I ere I saw Elba (attributed jokingly to Napoleon), or the title of a famous NOVA program: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama.

This reliance on puns gives Freud an interpretative freedom which might often be considered licence.

Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.

Knock, knock! Who's there? Europe. Europe who? No, you're a poo.

Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.

What's the speed limit for sex? Sixty-eight. Because at sixty-nine you have to turn around.

What does a horny frog say? "Rub-it.

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

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.

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn't have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

Hump my hump, My stumpy lumpy hump! Hump my dump, you lumpy slumpy dump! I'll dump your hump, and then just hump your dump, You lumpy frumply clump.

When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.

It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

Q: What is the first derivative of a cow? A: Prime rib.

Q: What do you call a sleeping bull? A: A bulldozer.

Q: Why is the roach clip called a roach clip? A: Because "pot holder" was taken.

Q: What do you call a small river that runs into the Nile? A: Juvenile.

Q: What is the difference between snowmen and snowwomen? A: Snowballs.

Q: What kind of bees give you milk? A: Boobees.

Q: Did you hear about the dyslexic lawyer? A: He studied all year for the bra exam.