Ann Coulter Quotes

I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

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.

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.

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

If you wanted to hear politics, you'd go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn't go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.

'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

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

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

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.

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

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

Republicans are easy to make fun of.

Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.

I think I've seen every 'Bill Maher' episode.

I stay far away from political humor.

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.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.