Humor Limits Quotes

As comedians, we all get into that mode of thinking of the worst thing imaginable - but you usually have the ability to pull back before releasing it to the world.

If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'

Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never do any of that.

The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

You can't make people laugh for more than half an hour and be consistent.

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else.

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.

Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.

I wouldn't want my comedy show to hurt anybody. I'm not Donald Trump.

You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

Don't make jokes about food.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.