Kate McKinnon Quotes

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Whenever anybody is pursuing power, he's got to be funny.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

I'm a big fan of George Carlin's.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a politician speaking, a lot of times you can see the strings, you can see what agenda they're trying to push.

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

I look to icons like George Carlin, Chris Rock, and Richard Pryor on how to present these concepts of social change and subversiveness to an audience in a way that's palatable.

People go, 'Oh, Trump must be good for comedy,' and I go, 'Ehhh.'

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.