Here's a brilliant example of Shavian wit. It comes from `SHAW,' by C.E.M. Joad, (1949) London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., p.74 One speech which I heard him deliver was subjected to continual interruption by a man who raucously shouted his irrelevant and usually unintelligible remarks from the gallery. After this had been going on for some time, Shaw paused, looked benignly in the direction of the interrupter and said with an air of great blandness: "If the gentleman in the gallery will forgive me for interrupting him, I should like to point out..." - & (anand)
(From the "Rest" of RHF)