George A. Romero Quotes

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

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

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

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!

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

They say they blame it on a song when someone kills a cop, what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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

I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is trying to figure out ways of blending politics with humor, and making it interesting. So I don't know if anybody's interested in this stuff, but I like it, so I get involved with it.

If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they're about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.

I've had shows where, afterwards, people have commented or hoped I would talk more about something in politics or that I would make a joke about Mitch McConnell or something like that.

I'm not the hugest comic book person, but I do love superheroes.

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.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.

Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton: this weekend, 33rd wedding anniversary. How about that? And you thought the Iraqi war was a never-ending conflict.

Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.

Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive, I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.