Teddy Thompson

I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.

British Musician

Becky Lynch

I'm the champ that puns the camp! That's what I always wanted. I wanted to be seen as a main eventer, and it's a lot of responsibility now. I feel like I'm gonna deliver on this opportunity. I want to take it and make sure everybody knows that this is why I'm the champ.

Irish Athlete

Grace Gealey

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

American Actress

Jay-Z

As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish 'gets lost in translation' - no pun intended.

American Musician

Arthur Smith

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

English Comedian

Willam Belli

Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.

American Actor

James Howe

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

American Writer

Edgar Allan Poe

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

American Poet

Scott Aukerman

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

Tim Vine

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

British Comedian

Puns are often used to create humor in conversations, literature, and social media.

Humor Device

Puns are more common in casual settings or informal writing and can seem out of place in serious contexts.

Informal Use

Making a pun usually requires planning and intention, as it has to involve words with similar sounds or meanings.

Often Intentional

 their visceral passion talking about music, it definitely stirred something in me, and I'm a sucker for anyone talking devotedly about the power of music. And I started to write down on these little note cards every time I heard something that struck a chord in me, pardon the pun, or something that I thought I could use,

How sampling transformed...

 the group ended their joke the only way they could. They printed Bourbaki’s obituary, complete with mathematical puns. Despite his apparent death, the group bearing Bourbaki’s name lives on today. Though he’s not associated with any single major discovery, Bourbaki’s influence informs much current research.

The greatest mathematicia...

 and that we have growing concerns about our two-party political system. But the most important thing about this conversation is that it happened at all. Without an open and honest dialogue between the two of us, this election would have been the elephant in the room for the next four years, pun intended.

How our friendship...

 everything in the universe by the same process that you use to solve a crossword puzzle now I don't mean dictionaries full of words sorted by lengths I'm talking about the puzzle as a whole those themed clues that go all the way across the grid and today like a three word phrase there's a terrible pun

Demystifying quantum...

 I learned that everything he did to manage his excess saliva, including some positive side effects that came from other drugs, were making his constipation worse. And if anyone's ever had severe constipation, and you don't understand how much of an impact that has on your life -- yes, that was a pun.

Jamie Heywood: The big...

 Sex. There's an awful lot of fast sex around, isn't there? I was coming to -- well -- no pun intended there. I was making my way, let's say, slowly to Oxford, and I went through a news agent, and I saw a magazine, a men's magazine, and it said on the front,

Carl Honore: In praise...

 I encourage all of you to read Steve's book or to watch the movie to understand not only the beautiful bond that formed between these two men, but how music helped shape that bond, and ultimately was instrumental -- if you'll pardon the pun --

Robert Gupta: Music is...

 it's just little pun and until the day I do for the first time in a marine reserve that had been protected for a few years and everything that goes to show that was there the large groupers the sea bream the stingrays in large

Stories of Exploration...

 and until recently, you can't search the surname of top leaders. So, the Chinese are very good at these puns and alternative wording and even memes. They even name themselves -- you know, use the name of this world-changing

Michael Anti: Behind the...

 So a lot of the pieces that I've made, they involve found objects. And it really -- it's almost like doing visual puns all the time. When I see objects, I imagine them in motion. I imagine what can be said with them.