Moshe Kasher Quotes

I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

Ethnology: The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he less savage than the other savages.

'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I love that you can confront it with humour and with satire.

We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

I like the ironic pomposity of a stand-up comedian. Like all those comedians thinking they can bring down Coca-Cola. They forget to be funny.

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.