Dana Carvey Quotes

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'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.

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.

We all joke about Bush. You go to a meeting and just say “Bush” and everyone will laugh.

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

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

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

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.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

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

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

I've been making fun of Donald Trump - we all have - for 10 years, and just bringing up his name... I mean, even if you're supportive of Donald Trump, there's still a lot to make fun of.

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

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.

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

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

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.

You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.

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.