As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
I've never really loved mean comedy.
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
Donald Trump's humor is hostile to a fault.
Some people say I'm a pussy. I say, you are what you eat.
Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.
If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.
I don't like aggressive humor or mean humor.
I try to keep it sweet, but trash-talking is fun, and people want to see if a brash kid like me can live up to his patter.
Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
