Joan Rivers Quotes

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.

Adam Carolla is like Hitler if Hitler wasn’t funny.

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

Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

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

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

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

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.

You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

I'm not offended. Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny, I don't think you can make fun of ISIS, but almost everything is funny. And If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So I don't mind ethnic humor. I like ethnic humor. I like dialect jokes. Laughter is a very subjective thing. If it's funny to you it's funny. And a lot of things are funny to me.

I am a fan of whatever makes me laugh my ass off. If it happens to be a Jew joke, then it's a Jew joke.

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

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

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

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

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

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.