Robin Ince Quotes

You live your comedic life close to the edge, you're gonna cross the line and offend people.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

I'm dirty, I'm irreverent - but I'm still a very topical comedian.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets.

There's no such thing as too far. If it works it's funny, if it doesn't work it's too far, it's stupid. Really there's no such thing as "too far." You're joining the politically correct when you use words like "too far." You don't want to join the army of politically correct.

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

Racist France is back

People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, 'I was just being funny.'

I always wrote risque comedy and crude comedy.

I was being called a shock comic. I hated that. It's so cheap and stupid.

I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.

Do you think it's a good idea to be sarcastic about slavery?

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

I think jokes on colour or body shaming shouldn't be made. It's not funny to crack such jokes.

The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.

I'm too far to the left for some, too far to the right for others. I'm my own brand of comedy.

Adam Carolla is like Hitler if Hitler wasn’t funny.

Go look at what any liberal says about anybody they disagree with, and especially conservatives, the first thing you're gonna hear them talk about is hate, too much hate. Then you'll hear racist, and then bigoted, and automatically homophobic, intolerant. Just go down the list. And they all believe it about any conservative alive. And, in many of their cases, about any Republican alive.

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.

Genuinely love doing standup and I'm a comedian first, so for me what makes my standup special is the fact that I don't have to adapt or adjust. I am who I am. I appeal to everyone, hence in the movie doing a world tour.

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would admit throwing an f-bomb in there would help get a reaction. ... I'm not on a Puritanical pursuit, but when I would curse in a joke, I believe I'm not done writing it.