Billy Connolly Quotes

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

In the end, everything is a gag.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.