Jerry Sadowitz

thumb|Jerry Sadowitz in 2011 Jerry Sadowitz (born 4 November 1961) is an American-born Scottish stand-up comic and card magician, known for his frequently controversial "sick humour". Quotes Nelson Mandela? What a cunt. Terry Waite? Bastard. I dunno, you lend some people a fiver, you never see them again. Undated, quoted in GQ, 2 February 2010 Hello moose-fuckers! You know what I hate about this country? Half of you speak French and the other half let them. To an audience in Montreal, quoted in The Guardian, 9 November 2011 The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992) How do you give a woman an orgasm? Who cares! My mother thinks I'm at Kings cross right now buying drugs off a prostitute. If she knew I was on the BBC, she'd kill me. My idea of Comic Relief is switching Victoria Wood off. I only hate two things - living things, and objects. I'm actually a bisexual necrophiliac - I'll shag anything that doesn't move. I used to think I was great in bed until I discovered that all my girlfriends suffered from asthma. Quotes about Sadowitz Sadowitz is a very different act from Gervais and Carr: low status, stubbornly niche, the connoisseur's misanthrope. I dislike boorish comedy that punches down for kicks, and I appreciate it can be hard to spot the difference when an act only seems to be doing so – especially when they're quoted out of context amid a hysterical media storm. But writing about the offensive comedy debate, Sadowitz has long been my go-to exemplar: if you're as skilful as he is, if you take the pains he takes to contextualise the material, you can be as brutally unpleasant as you like without censure. Brian Logan, The Guardian, 16 August 2022 External links Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Stand-up comedians from the United States Category:Magicians from the United States Category:Jews from the United States Category:People from New Jersey