Howard Stern Quotes

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

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

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

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but... I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, 'Why have we gone there?' It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap. It's so easy.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate.

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

I'm always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.

I don't like swearing on the air. As a matter of fact, I'm not a prude, but I go to the movies and then wonder - I asked myself the same question, and I watch HBO and some of the comedy stuff, and I'm constantly asking myself, why have we gone there? It seems like it's unfortunate. It's so cheap.

If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is "poontang".

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.