A right to make jokes about transgender people, disabled people, and people who are overweight is defended. A refusal to apologise for or rewrite past material is stated, with a preference instead to add trigger warnings. An intention to make current material more offensive is described as a strategy to make earlier work appear milder by comparison. A claim is made that personal conviction underpins continued focus on these topics. Doubts are expressed about taking responsibility for the cultural effects of on-stage remarks. A pattern of doubling down on contentious themes rather than softening them is asserted.
"It's almost like you haven't changed in parallel with the times. You've kind of doubled down on those issues. It's become more important to you."
"I have a right to talk about those things,"
"And there are jokes I certainly stand by. I can't look back and say, 'Oh, sorry about that, I said that when I was only 50.'"
"What I do is I try and get more offensive, so when I look back, I go 'aw wasn't I kind when I was 45'."
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