Quotes from Jim Norton

Comics who consider themselves 'mavericks' or think the crowd doesn't get them are normally lousy comics.

Communicate and just be open with each other. Have an unpleasant talk once in a while so it does not turn into a festering resentment, which is inevitable. It has happened with every girlfriend I have ever had.

You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.

I don't care if I offend people. I really don't care.

Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

Anything you can do that's self-destructive in Vegas, whatever that is, I do it.

For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.

The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.

All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.

I think what's happening is that women are allowed to be funnier as we stop pretending that there are subjects that they shouldn't address.

To me the important thing for a comic to be is emotionally honest.

Language in comedy is very violent.

I want people to feel like there's nothing they have to be worried about laughing at. There's nothing that can't be made fun of.

My whole existence is spent just trying to not shove bad food in my fat face. It's like a constant struggle. I'll do really good for a while, and then I do bad, then I do really good.