Calvin Trillin Quotes

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

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

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

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

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

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

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

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

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

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.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.