Adam Conover Quotes

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

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

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

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

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

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.

This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.

I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references.

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