Limmy Quotes

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

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

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Saying the “wrong” thing, a purposefully offensive or demonstrably false thing, has become, for the disaffected, a mark of integrity.

I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.

I have a theory, which is that the idea of a roast is to go to this forbidden, uncomfortable, almost performance-art-level shock place, but because we're so regularly shocked and offended today, the idea of an hour and a half of unbridled negativity is just so unappealing.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.

I've been saying inappropriate things since I was a kid.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

I'm not a politically correct person.

I don't mind causing offence when I intend to, but I don't like causing it accidentally.

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

For me the best way to increase society's resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed. We need to build our immunity to taking offense so that we can deal with the issue that perfectly justified criticism can raise. Our priority should be to deal with the message not the messenger.