Beppe Grillo Quotes

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.

All comedy is really talking about social issues and things that are affecting our lives.

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.

If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

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

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

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

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

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

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

One of the jobs of a stand-up comedienne is to expose hypocrisy.

Health is more than the absence of disease…It is also education….We have a health illiterate society.

I'm not a political comic.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

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

I do enjoy Dennis Miller, I do enjoy Chris Rock when they do their political humor, but it's never been my goal... I love relatable humor.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."