Jeff Ross Quotes

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

I like to make fun of serious matters.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

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

I want to crack jokes about people. That is my right.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.