With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special and in the joke I am the faggot, if that makes sense.
Neal BrennanI'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.
Neal BrennanWhen I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.
Neal Brennan