Ronnie Barker Quotes

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

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

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

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

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

I was the class innuendist.

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

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

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

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

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.

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.

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

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

I live and die by puns.