David Zucker Quotes

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.

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!

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.

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

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

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like, 'Oh, it's a cartoon.' There's mixed media. It's funny, and there's stop-motion. But as an adult, you figure it out, how the entire underpinnings of their comedy was poking fun at the rank and file of the British aristocracy and the monarchy.

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.

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

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

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

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

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

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

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

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

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

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

I'm not a political comic.

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

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

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

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.