Will Rogers 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.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

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

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

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.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

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.

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

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

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

Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.

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.

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

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

I stay far away from political humor.

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.