Wit & Attitude Quote by Ryan Stiles

The joke lands because it brazenly drags the most private arena into the most harmless aisle of the grocery store. Ryan Stiles frames sex as performance anxiety - "I may not be the best" - then yanks the whole confession sideways with a cheese pun that turns vulnerability into vaudeville. The pivot is the point: it’s not an attempt to be seductive so much as an attempt to defuse the pressure of being seductive. If you can’t promise greatness, promise a laugh.

Stiles is a comedian best known for improvisation, and you can hear that improviser’s reflex in the line: set up a conventional self-deprecating admission, then swerve into a wordplay tag that forces the audience to reclassify what they’re hearing. "Making love" carries the inflated language of romance; "damn gouda" punctures it with something tactile, ridiculous, and aggressively unserious. The profanity gives it snap, while the phonetic closeness of "good" and "gouda" makes the pun feel inevitable in hindsight, like the brain enjoys being tricked into it.

Subtextually, it’s a small rebellion against macho competence. Instead of bragging, it offers a comic identity: I’m not a sex god, but I’m enjoyable company. In a culture that markets bedroom prowess as status, Stiles sells likability as the real flex - and uses a dairy aisle punchline to make that humility safe to applaud.