Jack Germond Quotes

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.

Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating - is this the exact right mix? I think that's - to me it's anti-comedy. It's more about PC-nonsense.

I'm not PC all the time in my phrasing, because that meets a wall; people won't hear it.

I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.

We've gotten to a point where you can't be a politician and actually say what you're thinking because someone's gonna get offended, and God forbid, like, everyone's so sensitive now, it's ridiculous.

There's this whole debate about whether being PC is just being like political or whether it's just being a good person, and I feel like that's something that people need to take into consideration because, you know, people are like, "Oh PC culture is ruining America." It's being a good person. If you're offended when people are not, you know, sexist or racist, then you're a part of the problem.

My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

I don't try to be politically correct.

In their rush to placate everyone and offend no one - and in particular to pander to Islam - the Left wants to shut down Christianity.

The first rule of multiculturalism is that you can't talk about multiculturalism.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.

It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person.

I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.