Stephen Malkmus Quotes

My whole career has been an Ann Coulter roast.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

[Donald Trump] puts a miner's hat on.The media, some in it, were concerned - or hoping - that Trump would have helmet hair when he took the helmet off. They were hoping that he had so much hair spray on, that the miner's helmet he was wearing would leave an indentation in his hair. That was actually a subject in some of the stories I read. So the MacGuffin... There's no media. There isn't any news.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

Reporters aren't actually people!

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.

I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

I apologize for what the media has done.

I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.

Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic because a fox often appears on Donald Trump's head.

Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

It's always fun to write the little bit of TV that the characters watch in 'Gravity Falls,' because it's a perfect place to poke fun at the media.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.