Stephen Colbert Quotes

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

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

I just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.

On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

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

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

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

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.