Dick Clark Quotes

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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

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.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

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

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.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

Comedians in general make their living calling liars on their lies.