A Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Puns are a form of humor with words.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.
I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
Puns are the highest form of literature.
I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.
In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.
I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.
I love puns and plays on words, which is why I love RuPaul so much.
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?
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