Lewis Black Quotes

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Everything can be satirized.

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

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

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 eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

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.

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

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

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