Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Izzard uses dark humor to claim babies taste like chicken based on cannibal logic.
In plain terms
He argues babies taste like chicken because humans taste like chicken.
What can you take from it?
Absurd logic can create shocking humor.

Where it applies

  • stand-up comedy
  • dark jokes
  • shock value

Putting it to work

  • shock humor
  • using logic to offend

Questions to consider

  • When does humor cross a line?
  • Why do we find shock funny?

Another view

The content is highly offensive and inappropriate for many contexts.

More from Eddie Izzard

  1. There was a spirit of ex-empire, this thing of 'things can't be done', whereas in America, I thought there was a spirit of 'can be done!', the pioneer thing. '…

    Permalink to quote #24
  2. 'You killed a hundred thousand people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morni…

    Permalink to quote #26
  3. I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. And, uh : oh yes. You tear your history down, man! Thirty years old, let's smash it to the floor and put a c…

    Permalink to quote #23

Related quotes

  1. 'Great-grandfather died under strange circumstances. He opened a vein in his bath.' 'I never knew baths had veins,' protested Gabrilowitsch.' 'I never knew his…

    S. J. PerelmanS. J. Perelman quote #2
  2. If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.

    Spike MilliganSpike Milligan quote #2
  3. He was in LOGIC a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side: On either which he w…

    Samuel ButlerSamuel Butler quote #3