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If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

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Eric Andre
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 4
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When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.
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You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.
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Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.
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Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.
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All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.
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I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.
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Comedy is often about pain.
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I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said hell and damn in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
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Wonder Showzen was one of the first shows that realized each sketch, each segment is essentially one joke, and, once you know what the joke is, it's time to move on.
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I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.
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The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.
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I feel like we put all the weight on the president, rather than distributing the weight to all of the elected officials.
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I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.
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I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.
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I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.
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I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.
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You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.
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There's two sides to the coin. I think I'm much happier that [Barack] Obama won over John McCain or Mitt Romney, because I think Obama did something culturally for the country.
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Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.
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