If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.
Great humorists are great insulters.
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.
I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.
You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.