A biography for Jim Nortonhasn’t been written yet.
“I think people like to label everything. I just think it's comfortable.”
“I want people to feel like there's nothing they have to be worried about laughing at. There's nothing that can't be made fun of.”
“Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.”
“It's fun to pick the worst jokes you can think of.”
“To me the important thing for a comic to be is emotionally honest.”
“Language in comedy is very violent.”
“Regular people are the problem. It's not the government, it's not the invasive Big Brother, it's the fact that we're a nation of snitches and nosey people who then cry when somebody wants our personal information. I'm talking about people who are being voyeuristic to people's privacy.”
“I date but nothing really long term. I haven't had much luck. I probably haven't met the right woman. Most probably know to stay away from me.”
“The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.”
“I love everything about Boston. The women are phenomenal, they're all dirty. It's just a really great place to do comedy.”
“The one curse in America is that we deny who we really are and what we like.”
“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.”
“You can't worry about saying something that will get you in trouble because the line changes so fast. If you try to navigate it, you will not only suck but eventually say something stupid and get yourself dumb anyway.”
“All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.”
“I like being single.”
“Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.”
“I don't have jokes that I can't defend.”
“You never want your greatest work to be 10 years ago.”
“I'm very careful with my money.”
“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.”