Kym Whitley Quotes

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

It's really frustrating when you write a show and it's really funny and someone and from Standards and Decency says, 'You can't put that in because it has a naughty word.'

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

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.

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.'

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

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

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.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

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.

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

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

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

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

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.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

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