Peter Hitchens Quotes

You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.

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

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

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

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

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

Whenever anybody is pursuing power, he's got to be funny.

If you want to go into politics, first get your name known.

You go wherever the laugh is. I think in that respect Republicans have been a little better for us.

I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don't feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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

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

I stay far away from political humor.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is trying to figure out ways of blending politics with humor, and making it interesting. So I don't know if anybody's interested in this stuff, but I like it, so I get involved with it.

I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

President Obama. He is the man. I've tried the rest, and he is the best. My dream is for him to appoint me to be the Secretary of Humor. My first act will be to make whatever Larry the Cable Guy is doing illegal.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.