Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
If you wish the sympathy of broad masses then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
I'm ambidextrous, I slap ass with both hands.
I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.
I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
... vulgarity has no nation.
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
I just like swearing and being cheeky.
Ugliness without tact is horrible.
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
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.
That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
