Perez Hilton Quotes

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

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.

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

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

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

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

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!

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.

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

In a weird way, our satirists probably have the most complicated, nuanced views of our politics now - Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver. I don't know what that says about our country.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.