Dana Carvey Quotes

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

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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.

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

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

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

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

I did theatrical caricatures.

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

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 can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

You go wherever the laugh is. I think in that respect Republicans have been a little better for us.

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

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.

Parodies came about because Mr. Ford was actually one of the better athletes of our presidents... but he continually had physical accidents... he was an easy target for me. The main idea was to get people laughing.

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

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

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

I stay far away from political humor.