David Walliams Quotes

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

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

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

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

I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke.

We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we have lost a lot of humour because people are too frightened of getting too near touchy subjects.

Humour or comedy should not offend anyone.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

The idea of what's acceptable and what's shocking, that's where I investigate. I mean, you can't be on 'Top Gear,' where your only argument is that it's all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that.