John Oliver Quotes

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

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 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.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

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.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

There is nothing wrong with a political joke as long as it doesn't get elected.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

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

'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

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