sarcastic humour is intended for your own appreciation, witty humour is intended for others and the hope they can appreciate it, oddly enough when sarcasm is scolded you feel very little concern, but when wit is scolded you do feel a coldness and a sort need to invent something more passing off as intelligence, intelligence needs to be impulsive, blunt, intuitive, it really doesn't need to be pre-prepared worthy of a Shakespeare quote, all those bits of 'life's a stage,' fair enough, but what if life is a gutter? sarcasm only works for the one who speaks it, it's also a cousin of satire addressing politics, wit knows no satire, wit is a proud humour, it's too proud to enter sarcastic remarks in the pig trough of reciting political satire, wit is a form of narcissism in the end, it wants attention, being appreciated: like an anecdote... sarcasm just shoves a boxing glove in your face and says: can you help me forget, or do you want to hear a knock-out? indeed sarcasm doesn't use punchlines like wit, it just uses a mike tyson method of one punch one constellation of fluttering sparrows in Orion in a halo of daze of an opponent: flat like a pancake on the floor, but he or she won't be easily flipped or even count to 10, you'll only have to be content with what sarcasm is: the easiest identifiable method of communicating comedy after slapstick humour of laurel & hardy & (lee) evans.