"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'."
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.
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