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just mean they all had a different sense of humor that they didn’t share with the public, like Milton Berle taking his dick out and putting it in a hot dog bun. But then when these young comedians like Robert Klein started showing up, they were all like, Oh, this is out of line!

Jeff: Michael Richards. You know, I’ve seen things worse than that, and you have, too. Horrible, horrible things. And if he was funny that night, nobody would have been pissed. But he wasn’t funny. Hall of Fame not funny. Judd: But was it offensive? Jeff: What? Him saying what he said about the fork and shit like that? Yeah!

He’s responsible for, at minimum, two of the top ten comedies of all time, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. (There is a legitimate argument to be made that he is responsible for more than half of the top ten.) One could say Blazing Saddles is still the edgiest comedy ever made; screamingly funny and original, yes, but all in the service of i

George Carlin once said that it is the job of a comedian to find the line and then cross it. That is what I have done. The line I found is the definition of comedy itself, and given the considerable nerve I struck, I would say that makes me an excellent comedian. Except I won’t. Because I don’t think of myself as a comedian, I am a stand-up perform