The landscape of comedy has changed dramatically in recent years amid continued discussions over what is or isn’t acceptable for comedians to joke about. This has led to many comics changing their acts greatly while others are playing it safe by refusing to do any more stand-up specials at all for the foreseeable future. Family Feud host and comedian Steve Harvey, per Variety, explained how he fits into the latter category at the Television Critics Association press tour.

Harvey, who was on the tour to promote his new ABC reality show Judge Steve Harvey, went on to say that his career in comedy would be over if he stayed in stand-up. From Harvey’s point of view, “every joke” a comedian could tell these days could offend someone. He insists that many jokes need to be about a particular person or group of people, as poking fun at inanimate objects doesn’t make for good comedy. As Harvey puts it:

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Perhaps wisely, Harvey offers no examples as to what kind of material he’d pursue in this hypothetical farewell show. For now, it appears he’s going to stick with starring on ABC’s reality programming, such as Family Feud and Celebrity Family Feud.

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Judge Steve Harvey also recently premiered on ABC and as it sounds, the program featured Harvey serving as a judge. The show has been greenlit as a limited series with only ten episodes ordered outright, but as is always the case, the potential is there to order more episodes if enough people are tuning in.

“My team didn’t know anything about the idea so when I pitched it, and they heard the idea for the first time they were surprised and excited,” Harvey said of the show to Parade.com. “ABC called me back the next day and said they wanted to do it. So that’s really how it was born.”

He added, “There are some heartfelt moments [and] there’s some ridiculousness to it. There are some heartfelt moments in it; there’s some ridiculousness to it. More than anything I use the one gift that I’ve always had and the one that’s gotten me pretty much everywhere in entertainment, and that’s my gift of comedy… it’s going to be flat-out funny!”

Harvey’s new show, Judge Steve Harvey, premiered on Jan. 4. The show airs Tuesday at 8/7c on ABC.