David Letterman Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.

Comedy is one of my strengths.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

Gene Wilder is so funny.

Louis C. K. makes me laugh, I must say.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.

If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

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!

Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.