Puns are the highest form of literature.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Weren't you ever booed at by your mother?!

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?