Ross Douthat Quotes

There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.

I really like dark, politically incorrect humor.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

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

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

On what planet do you spend most of your time? ... As you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, my answer to you is, … it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table: I have no interest in doing it.

I don't have an act. I just talk. I'm just Lenny Bruce.