A Quote by Oscar Levant

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

Oscar Levant

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Oscar Levant
American - Composer
December 27, 1906 - August 14, 1972

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Doug Larson

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Benjamin Franklin

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

John Oliver

Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor.

John Lennon

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

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.

Karin Slaughter

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Eoin Colfer

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

Stephan Pastis

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.

Arthur Smith

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

Ambrose Bierce

I think at some point [Big Pun] really wanted to be a singer as well. He would call me at 3 or 4 in the morning and say "Yo Twin, sing something for me!". That's the type of love Big Pun had for me. He had this faith and belief and he expressed it many times. It was overwhelming for me. I think that he honestly believed I was going to make a difference in the game.

Tony Sunshine

I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.

Boots Riley

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

Martin Short

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Kathleen Hanna

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Mort Sahl

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.

Terry Gross

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