Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.
Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.
Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?
Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people and redrew the boundaries of taste, beauty, and eroticism around her masculinity, ebony skin, and unrelenting intensity.
I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
