Groucho Marx Quotes

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

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

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.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

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

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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.

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

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.

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.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I like humor.

A joke's a very serious thing.

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.