If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of honesty and freedom of expression in comedy, often at the expense of political correctness.
Russell Peters emphasizes the idea that the essence of comedy is to express thoughts and feelings openly, even if they may be deemed inappropriate or politically incorrect. He suggests that those who adhere strictly to political correctness may miss out on authentic comedic experiences, as comedians often tackle taboo subjects and say what people might think but are afraid to voice.
In practice
During a comedy night emphasizing the importance of being open about our thoughts.
I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.
I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
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