Mitch Hedberg Quotes

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

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

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

I'm really great at making terrible analogies.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

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.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

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

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

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

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

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.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

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