: Re: How do you make a character witty? How can a character be made to appear witty, or funny? That is, the character amuses other characters, not the reader, who should ideally be impressed with

I'm afraid then you're quite stuck.

Note as the author you have significant advantages:

no fear of L'esprit de l'escalier - you can always come back and add/modify given reply, or slowly engineer given joke.
You create the situation for situational humor. Moreover, you can set up the victims of the wit to say or do things that will give the witty guy all the ammo you need.
You have all the time in the world for testing and polishing (...or at least as much as the publisher allows)
You can ask for external help. Get a witty friend to help you find good retorts in given passages.
You can finally cheat by plagiarizing - not directly, but you can adapt witty situations from other (important: Little known!) sources, edit them to match the current situation and make them your own.

Last but not least, gather a bunch of expressions with double meanings, have their innocent, literal meaning variants happen in the story, then have the smartass mention them in a way that arises blush.

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