Appropriate Humor Quotes

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

I just don't believe in joking about violence anymore.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.

Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.

My shows are not all-the-way filthy, but they can be.

I could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.

I never wrote for children. I wrote with respect for the audience, which I've maintained all my life. Doesn't mean I couldn't be risque, but I did it smartly, without being vulgar.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

Ricky Gervais has jokes about people with disabilities, but do I think that's a healthy thing? Yes, I really do, because he's chosen his targets very carefully, and he's thought about what he's doing.

No-one wants to hear a crude joke at the expense of the Principal, or the Bridegroom, or the head of the company. Well, they do, but wait 'til you're offstage then WhatsApp it to everyone instead.

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the things that shouldn't be mocked.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.