Even conservative columnists tend to prefer humor that isn't fit to print.
Vulgarity shouldn't pass off as humour.
As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes.
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.
If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.
The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.
I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
