Peter Kay Quotes

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

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

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Humor is hostility.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Comedians shame people.