Quotes About Controversy

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

It's a real valley when I talk about veal. And calf roping. People were sensitive about calf roping. Which I think is quite funny.

Is an egg a vegetable?

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

The insane little dwarf, Bush.

I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

It's funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.""That could have happened to anyone!