Phaedrus Quotes

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

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.

A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

I believe you can joke about anything.

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

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

Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

Gentlemen don't do that.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences - isolation, ostracism, etc.

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

Let's just let funny people be funny.

I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.' And I say, 'How can I be racist? Isn't racism exclusionary? If all of you are offended, that means I'm including every race in my jokes.'

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.

This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

It is part of my job description to be offensive.

I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.

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

People have no concept of boundaries.

I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

Good manners are a part of good morals.