Irwin Corey Quotes

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

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

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

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

The longest word in the world is "a word from our sponsor."

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I live and die by puns.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

It's spelled, like, S-E-R-G. I always thought it would be funny if I called my son 'Sir.' Like calling your daughter 'Ma'am,' or something like that.

My idea of working out is drinking whiskey - instead of beer.

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.

In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.