Same with Bill Hicks. He even admitted most of the people in his audiences were stupid.
My ***: "Bill, do you have to say the F-word in your act, ***? Bob Hope doesn't need to use the F-word in his act." "Yeah, well, ***, gues what. Bob Hope doesn't play the s***-holes I play, all right? You put him in some of these joints, he'll have Emmanuel Lewis and Phyllis Diller 69ing as his closer - just to get out of there alive!"