Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great humorists are great insulters.
An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
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.
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!
Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
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