Issac Asimov on Puns:
Taken from Counting the Eons:
"It changes from fun to a serious duel, however, when one punster finds another. The other does not enjoy your cleverness. No, he sits there under pressure and tries to top you with another pun that is related to yours. Then, when the shock of his riposte strikes you, you must churn your brains wildly to come back with something else with a minimum of delay and so the duel escalates itself, until the two of you have to be led away by kindly bystanders and put to bed with ice bags on each fevered brow."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.George Burns and Gracie Allen never dueled puns. ...Abbott & Costello did a bit more punny funnies. ...I wonder who Azimov was describing?
GreenAtheist
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Asimov loved nothing better than a good pun. I suspect it might have been himself. 
That's a bit of work, isn' it? Doesn't sound pun at all!
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