A biography for Ralphie Mayhasn’t been written yet.
“I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.”
“I've been called a race traitor, prejudiced about white people. It's ridiculous... I have a really, really diverse crowd. Most comedy clubs appeal to white audiences. I have a very mixed crowd. I have a lot of visibility in the black audience.”
“The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.”
“Vegas needs a really funny, dirty, late-night show, and I'll tell it like it is, I promise you that. And you gotta love the audience I bring in.”
“I got kids now... It gives you an empathetic feeling into other cultures and stuff.”
“Atlanta is interesting. You have high education rates but there are plenty of regular folks. People have degrees but chop wood on weekends.”
“There's no getting around it - I am a politically incorrect, racially insensitive, culturally controversial comic, but at least I'm self-aware.”
“The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.”
“I'm even handed. I just point out the stupidity we all do.”
“The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.”
“You can have a poli-science degree but if you don't know people, it doesn't do you a bit of good when you're talking to someone.”
“I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.”
“I'm a crazy fat guy. And a strange one.”
“If we were all sitting around as different races and as different religions, if you were a real friend of these people, you would bust on them all.”
“The day you don't mess with somebody, that would be exclusive rather than inclusive. I strive to be inclusive.”
“I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.”
“If I can make you laugh and learn, I want to be like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and Sam Kinison and Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I want to be of that ilk, I don't want to just make you laugh, I want to make you think.”
“I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.”
“I'd like to be a U.S. senator from Tennessee.”
“Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.”