Quotes About Humor

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

People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians to me is so counterproductive, because comedy is kind of a medicine.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.

See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.

Whenever I make a blasphemous joke, I always say that I believe in a God big enough to know that I'm just kidding. How can God not know that I'm kidding? And also, how could God be offended at a thing that he made not believing in him?

Some of the material in 'Peep Show' I wouldn't sit down and watch with even my parents, who are not easily offended.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

I don't see myself as offending people.

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?'

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

It's great fun to have the license to say damn near anything you want, short of being offensive.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn't finish because the judges didn't like my jokes. They were 'offensive.'

It is part of my job description to be offensive.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

A lot of times I go to a comedy show, I sit there and wait for the comedian to run out of ideas and look at me and make an Asian joke. Which is very different for blacks and Latinos. You can't say certain things because everyone is cognizant of when things are and should be offensive. Asians don't have that luxury.

I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I would defend. You can't talk usefully in generalisations.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.