Buddy Hackett Quotes

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

I do have a dirty sense of humor.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.

Comedy is subjective.

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.

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

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

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

In reality, as a comedian, you're successful because you're funny, and you should be able to be funny about anything.

There is too much of crass comedy in films.

I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.