A joke is a very serious thing.
I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
I will make a joke about any of my family members, about me, about my wife, if I really thought that I'm doing it to be funny. If there's some darkness to it, or I think it's ill-willed or mean or not cool, then I won't do it.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.
There's a difference between an actual insult and a friendly jab. So I don't think I'm offensive onstage.
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
