David Jason Quotes

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

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

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

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

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.