David Cross 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.

We all joke about Bush. You go to a meeting and just say “Bush” and everyone will laugh.

Thank you, Mr. President, for hosting us and giving me the chance to be with so many people I haven’t voted for.

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

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

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.

Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

I never met a politician that I couldn’t take a poke at.

I'm not a political comic.

For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

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

I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.

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

My least favorite joke right now is Donald Trump.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of poking fun at it and letting the air out of people and satirizing things that are worthy of satire.

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible

But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.