One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack.

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.