Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

More from Mel Brooks

• Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die.
• 24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincedence? I think not.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
• 640K ought to be enough for anybody. 1981
• At some point things got so bad it just became funny.
• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.