Nice is the worst word.
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
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.
Everyone’s default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it’s sometimes amazing what comes out of people.
I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
