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Puns are a form of humor with words.

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.

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

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

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.

Comedy is second nature for me.