Michael Dapaah Quotes

Keeping it clean is important to me because I'm just aware of my audience. My audience is a younger generation and, just in general, I wouldn't want to show my mom a video of me swearing like crazy. It's good clean fun.

I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.

It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

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.

To this day, I like the version of movies that don't have the curse words. I'm very reserved that way.

Even when low-brow comedy ruled, I ensured my lines were not vulgar.

I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.

I'm always ready for TV. I don't have to edit my jokes - when you work clean, you can work anywhere.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

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.'

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

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

I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

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.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

We don't curse at Shots Studios, and we send a very positive message.

The thing is when I started doing standup, you had to have a clean act because that's how you got on television. There weren't all these cable shows. Also, I didn't want to have that kind of act in case my family came to see me or my kid one day.

I think a broader audience is really amazing. If there's no need for curse words or darkness, why go there? Why not make it PG?