Will Rogers Quotes

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

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.

It is difficult not to write satire.

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

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

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

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

There is nothing more frightening to a political satirist than an honest administration.

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