Mel Giedroyc Quotes

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

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.

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.

I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

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

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.

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

I was the class innuendist.

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 love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

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

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

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.

Wit is educated insolence.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'