Life's Pleasures Quote by Ryan Stiles

Raw dough becomes a miniature horror story in Ryan Stiles's hands: not a culinary warning so much as a performance of warning. The line works because it’s comically disproportionate. We all know the real nagging parent factoid now is salmonella or flour contamination, but Stiles reaches for an older, more folkloric threat: “worms.” It’s the kind of kid-facing myth that never needed evidence, only a vivid image and a rhythm you can’t shake.

That rhythm is the tell. “That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough.” reads like a scolding delivered with fake authority, the blunt cadence of someone improvising rules on the spot. Then the punch: “They can make worms in your tummy.” It’s not “you could get sick,” it’s body horror, personalized and immediate. The repetition - “Worms in your tummy” - is a hypnotic tag, the way comedians mimic how adults lecture: looping the scary part until it sticks, because fear is easier to remember than nuance.

Context matters with Stiles, a master of quick character-building (especially in improv settings like Whose Line Is It Anyway?). He’s often funniest when he commits fully to a premise that’s just plausible enough to trigger recognition. The subtext is less “food safety” than “watch how easily authority manufactures consequences.” It’s a parody of parenting, of schoolyard misinformation, of every shaky rule we inherited because it sounded gross and therefore true.