Kenya Barris Quotes

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

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

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

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!

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

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

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

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

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

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

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

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

There's a lot of division in politics, and that is why I am grateful to be a part of a show like 'Veep.' It makes light of the daunting aspects of the political world.

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

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

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.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

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.