Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere “hah.”
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.
I spent all night feeding the homeless to dogs.
It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn’t want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, “I need you guys.” I wanted to be so cool that the audience could leave and I would still be killing, that I didn’t want to have to rely on them or need them. That really appealed to me.
I didn’t care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn’t know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared.
I’m very arrogant and mean. I’m almost like a bad guy professional wrestler.
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.
My girlfriend is Jewish. But it’s easier to buy her a Christmas present and then break it into 8 pieces.
In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.
I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.
I don’t have much racial stuff in my act. And no one’s ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don’t bother me so much.
It’s always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it’s really tough when they’re on top of you.
The opposite of sad is down’s syndrome.
The one thing I’ve found you really can’t joke about – and people think it’s death or something – is money. No one thinks it’s funny, whether you have it or you don’t. Money is just something no one seems to like joking about.
I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I’m an outspoken atheist now. People say, ‘Oh, it’s a negative thing to be an atheist.’ I don’t agree. I think it’s more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.
Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.
I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don’t believe a word she says.
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.
I don’t think people shouldn’t try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I’m older, I’m more of a cat guy.