Humor & Life Quote by Pauly Shore

A comedian admitting he is "not used to getting good reviews" is both a shrug and a weapon. Pauly Shore delivers the line like a half-grin confession, but the real move is preemptive framing: if praise arrives, it’s an unexpected bonus; if criticism lands, it’s just the weather he already packed for. It’s humility that doubles as insulation.

The subtext is sharper than the self-deprecation suggests. Shore isn’t only talking about reviews; he’s talking about the entire economy of cultural permission that decides what counts as "good" comedy. His career sits in that 90s sweet spot of broad studio comedies, stoner affect, and deliberately irritating persona work. Critics often punished that mode for being lowbrow, repetitive, or commercially engineered, while audiences treated it as comfort food: quotable, dumb on purpose, highly memetic before "meme" was a job title.

So the line functions as a wink at the mismatch between gatekeepers and fans. It’s also a quiet acknowledgment of what it feels like to be typecast as a joke even when you’re the one telling them. "Not used to" implies a long, lived pattern; it’s not bitterness, it’s calibration. The joke isn’t that he’s insecure. The joke is that he’s emotionally prepared for disdain, and that readiness itself becomes part of the persona: the guy who knows he’s not prestige, and keeps walking onstage anyway.

In a culture that increasingly treats reviews as moral verdicts, Shore’s line reminds you how many performers learn to survive by expecting the worst and cashing the laugh regardless.