164 Quotes by Jim Norton

You know, a comedian's comedian is just that - it's a guy who's original and funny and can make comics laugh.

I never care if the audience groans.

Well, audiences will laugh at a lot of things that comedians won't.

Comics who consider themselves 'mavericks' or think the crowd doesn't get them are normally lousy comics.

I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event.

Realize that doing comedy is only going to make your depression worse.

I unloaded trucks for a living and I hated it.

I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we have become a nation of emasculated children whose only defense against an abyss of emotional agony is a trigger warning.

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.