I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.
I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.
Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.
The thing about Donald [Trump] is the jokes write themselves. I don't even think of it to be trolling. What he says is the joke.
To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.
Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
I did my first set at a talent show, and I couldn't finish because the judges didn't like my jokes. They were 'offensive.'
What I worry about is, if you are on the side of feeling it's disrespectful to kneel during the anthem, that somehow you're racist, or somehow you're not in favor of bettering this country and finding equality and common ground.
Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.
Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
I believe in strong borders, including keeping out Islamic terrorists. If people think that's inherently racist, fine - but I'm an American nationalist, not a white nationalist.
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.
I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.
There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.
Do liberals think nations such as Canada, Japan, Britain and Australia are pursuing 'racist' immigration policies? All have had merit-based immigration systems in place for decades.
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.
I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.
Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.
Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what.
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.
I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.
Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom 'Roseanne' after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.
Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
Myself, my little brother and my cousins have all been victims of racist police or prejudice, getting pulled over in a car and having to search the car for no reason.
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’
I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.
The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
If you're a comedian, you can only really write jokes for about an hour a day, so you've got a lot of time to fill.
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.
My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of empire is one we need to confront and come to terms with, rather than celebrate.
Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.
I'm always playing jokes, even on the manager - some, not many. I want to try and keep my place in the squad.
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.
When I see people laughing at my jokes, I feel so special. It is much more important than the fame I have achieved.
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.
Any time you can build jokes around a story that resonates on an emotional level, it is going to have a big impact.
Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.
Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.
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