In order to be considered witty or funny would that person need to be have somewhat of a high intelligence? In other words, do you have to be smart to be funny, or quick witted?

By smart do you mean highly educated? I think you need to be clever, but not necessarily book smart to be funny.

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Originally Posted by tracey ross1102

In order to be considered witty or funny would that person need to be have somewhat of a high intelligence? In other words, do you have to be smart to be funny, or quick witted?

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Some intelligence is surely required, but those excelling in the IQ department are not all too often the most witty or funny types...
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Very true... it goes both ways...

I've seen professors with two PhDs that can't make a baby laugh.

I've also seen some pretty unintelligent kids have the fastest comebacks.

I guess it's in the person's personality... of course, it helps if you're cultured and relatively educated so that you may be able to make references and have a greater "box of jokes"