Ralphie May Quotes

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.

I'm dirty, I'm irreverent - but I'm still a very topical comedian.

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

I don't necessarily have a traditional stand-up set.

I've done things so unconventionally that I don't think I'd ever be able to lead by someone else's example or the way somebody else has done it. Everybody has their own way of going about things and mine seems to be completely different.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.

I've said jokes where I thought people might get up and hit me for this. A couple of people have thought about it. But they didn't. It gives you a lot of power, because if you're on shows where people are worried about getting sacked and you're not, then you're transcendent because you say what other people would like to say.

I really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.

Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.

I'm not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I'm not clever in that way.

'Smart Funny & Black' came about because I felt that black comedians were being considered as only capable of a certain type of comedy - sort of physical, kind of silly - and I felt like we are not a monolith, and our comedy isn't, either.

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

I've always been a little left-of-center at school.

If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

I rarely do things based on what everybody else is doing; I never have.

I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.