Dorothy Parker Quotes

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

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 have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

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 truth is said in jest.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.

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

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

If I was a locksmith, I'd be pimping that out man. I'll trade you a free key duplication for. That joke made me laugh before I could finish it, which is good, because it had no ending.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.