punster

An unapologetic punster, Hornberg uses language, rhymes and riddles to break down complex topics into digestible bites, like using a slice of wheat bread to introduce a discussion about edible seeds.

A punster, he says at one point to the female servant who had attended to Jacob, “Lispeth, I think you’ve stepped in sacrament. Come, show us the bottoms of your shoes.”

Steinfeldt is a punster — “not stupid dad puns,” he assured me — who competed onstage at the Pun-Off World Championships in Austin.

Beyond a committed art public, of course, Dada punster Duchamp’s name wouldn’t ring many bells.

An inveterate punster, she once fulfilled a saxophone commission with “Saxual Orientation.”