People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something.
Jim NortonAnd while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.
Jim NortonWhen it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.
Jim NortonI hope you have a miscarriage on a Walmart floor and have the baby's room already decorated.
Jim NortonI should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey.
Jim NortonTwo men spit in their hands, help each other out, then laugh about it later. Just to be silly.
Jim NortonWhy is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.
Jim NortonMy job is to express who I am and what I hate about the country and what I love about it and what I hate about myself and what I love about myself and to make you laugh while I'm doing it.
Jim NortonYou 50 year old one-breasted bag of meat. Just hang it up and be grateful some of your friends are still living.
Jim NortonI had a three year relationship end. Ever have somebody just freak out on you in a relationship? Things are going great. After three years she wants to run out and find a guy that doesn't hit her.
Jim NortonIt just seems like right now we’re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it’s a lousy opinion or a shitty opinion, and comics I don’t think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I don’t care how nicely you say it, I don’t care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else.
Jim NortonMy whole existence is spent just trying to not shove bad food in my fat face. It's like a constant struggle. I'll do really good for a while, and then I do bad, then I do really good.
Jim NortonWhat a shock that a guy who makes $2 million a week behaves exactly like I would with $2 million a week. As far as I’m concerned, if you make $2 million a week and you don’t have a hooker in your hotel room, you’re creepy and I don’t trust you. And I don’t do drugs at all, so for me it would just be more prostitutes. That’s how they would find me. I would be dead on the floor, flattened by a pile of prostitutes. I’d look like a cat in a hoarders’ house.
Jim NortonFrom now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.
Jim NortonI'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like.
Jim NortonThey don't tend to feature the kind of vaginas I like in adult films. I tend to like a thick, heavy pussy - the kind of pussy that looks like it just smoked an exploding cartoon cigar.
Jim NortonPeople are dumb and they think that laughing equals cosigning a belief in the ideology, which it doesn't.
Jim NortonWhat's the name of the birth defect you have, trampled by a horse during the 2nd trimester?
Jim NortonI appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?
Jim NortonPeople are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.
Jim NortonApologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.
Jim NortonThe funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that’s probably why they’re the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.
Jim NortonI don't have kids. That's why I leave it in the dumper or in the mouth, because I hate kids.
Jim NortonWhile There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
Jim NortonThe only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.
Jim NortonPeople don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.
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