Josh Widdicombe Quotes

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.

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

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

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it.

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

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

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

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

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

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.

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

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

Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'

I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.