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A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

If I'm in a serious play, I often think to myself, 'I could make that line funny.'

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