Jim Norton

Comedian

1968-07-19

Quotes by Jim Norton

• While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

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• While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

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• Being 'edgy' is not just cursing. There are some things socially that are just not acceptable to make fun of. Anything with race, they really won't let you do on TV unless it's completely soft.

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• I've done 'Letterman' twice and he was friendly, he said hello as he was shaking your hand and in front of the audience, but you never spoke to him before or after.

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• The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this line, put our toes over it arrogantly and then scamper back to safety. The line doesn't exist.

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• Lenny Bruce did clean TV. You have to be able to do that, I think, to succeed because if you want to promote something, you go on 'The Tonight Show' or 'Letterman' or whatever, you can't be dirty.

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• Being a harsh, dirty comic, the last person on earth I ever expected to help my career was Jay Leno. I had always thought of performing on 'The Tonight Show' as an unachievable goal, because I bought into the myth that only squeaky clean, family-friendly material would be welcome there.

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• People say that Americans trends are transient, but the one activity we never seem to tire of is being outraged. Boy, do we love it!

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• You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes to speech and language and content.

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