The stand-up comedian and Tramadol Nights writer told Digital Spy that he finds things on the news offensive, rather than the expression of ideas.
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Tom Stade at the 2013 Q Awards
"I can put my feet in both camps, that's for sure," Stade said of performing at such different shows as Michael McIntyre's Roadshow and Frankie Boyle's The Boyle Variety Performance.
"Your hands are kind of tied... let's face it, you have lawyers looking at your material before you go on any shows on the BBC."
He continued: "If I had my day it'd be total freedom of speech. I think there are grannies out there that can laugh at really dark senses of humour.
"As much as they say, 'Can you watch this with your granny?' Well I've watched a lot of rude things with my granny.
"My granny's been around long enough that nothing shocks her. It's actually the younger kids who get shocked more than the older ones."
Stade said of his more controversial sets: "When I'm actually thinking about the material I'm not thinking about if it's right or if it's wrong. In the end I just want it to be funny.
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Tom Stade on 'Lee Mack's All Star Cast'
"If I'm telling this to make it a 'fight for freedom of speech and how dare they silence me' - it would take up a lot of my energy!
"I don't think about mainstream or controversial or anything like that. That'll be up to the viewer when they watch it, to take what they want out of it."
Stade said: "When you're dealing with comedy there's nowhere that you can't go, because they're all ideas. They're not put into reality.
"Things on the news really offend me! Every time I see someone get shot in a war zone, that offends me.
"But me talking about it? That doesn't offend me. For the most part I like shedding light on it."
He added: "I hate when they use the word 'joke'. When they say it's 'a controversial joke'. That's not ever what it is.
"Most of the time it's a controversial idea or it's shedding light on an absurdity of the world. But if you put the word 'joke' in front of it, it creates a victim for some reason.
"If you call it an absurdity or an idea, then all of a sudden there's not a victim. The only victim is the idea behind what we're doing."
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Tom Stade at the 2011 Q Awards
Quizzed on his Wikipedia page referring to his 'distinctive drunken Canadian accent', Stade said: "You can't police everything it says about me on a computer!
"Those days of worrying about what kind of image I have out there are gone. All I can do is do whatever show I've got ahead of me as best I can."
He added: "Really, of all the things they could have said... 'drunken Canadian accent' - there's worse out there. I'll take 'drunken Canadian accent', why not? It doesn't sound like he's not a fun guy.
"Who doesn't want to hang out with a guy with a drunken Canadian accent? It's better than an angry Cockney one!"
Of choosing material for his debut UK DVD Tom Stade Live, Stade said: "For the most part I really wanted to put the best jokes that I had up until that date on this DVD.
"It's the same as a musician - if it's his first one he doesn't put on songs that he knows aren't going to work.
"This is all my favourite jokes - that'd be the best way to describe it.
"I was so enthusiastic about doing them that they just came out so naturally. A lot of them are all the ones that I've loved doing up until the DVD was made."
Tom Stade Live is out now.
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