Stephen Colbert Quotes

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

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

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

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

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

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

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

If Donald Trump ran for President, it would be great for us comedians. It would not be good for anybody else, but it would be terrific for us.

Donald Trump refuses to be politically correct. And just to be safe, he refuses to be correct.

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

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

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

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 just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, "Mad takes on both sides." We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat. That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence.

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.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

Time magazine put Chris Christie on the cover with the caption, 'The Elephant in the Room.' And People magazine named him 'Sexiest Garbage Truck in a Suit.'

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.