Thom Yorke Quotes

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

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

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

The Clash is pretty much my favorite band, and their songs like 'Rock the Casbah' are political dance tracks.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

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.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

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!

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

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

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

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

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

Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

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.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.

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.