Adam Conover Quotes

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

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

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

I just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

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.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

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!

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

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

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

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

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

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.