Roger Ebert Quotes

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

I do not make jokes about Sarah Palin simply because I could not live in this world if I believed she was a real person.

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

… establishment bobblehead Fareed Zakaria

We all joke about Bush. You go to a meeting and just say “Bush” and everyone will laugh.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

I've been making fun of Donald Trump - we all have - for 10 years, and just bringing up his name... I mean, even if you're supportive of Donald Trump, there's still a lot to make fun of.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.