Moshe Kasher Quotes

I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

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

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

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

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

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've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

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

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

The normal half-brained politician sometimes doesn't understand capital markets.

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

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

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

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.

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

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

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 really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content.

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'