Jerry Sadowitz

"Nelson Mandela? What a cunt. Terry Waite? Bastard. I dunno, you lend some people a fiver, you never see them again."

"Hello moose-fuckers! You know what I hate about this country? Half of you speak French and the other half let them."

"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."

"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."