Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong

$Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more b — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir$

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.