Being Quote by Alex Wagner

I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I…

— Simon Pegg

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known…

— Michael Keaton

How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that…

— Kyle Kinane

“Since at least the year 2000 and the election of George Bush, Americans have shown themselves to be increasingly enamored with the heroic couplet…

— J. Jack Halberstam

Humor borne out of cruelty happens to be the easiest and therefore lowest form of comedy: It is cheap stuff and it does not…

— Alex Wagner

“There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an…

— Michael Wolff

George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for…

— Alexandra Petri

No matter how you feel, you've got to be able to laugh at yourself. If you can laugh at Donald Trump, then you better…

— Michael Che

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how…

— Elif Safak

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

— Thomas Carlyle

I don't think I said a single funny thing in class between 2004 and 2008.

— Ivo Graham

Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people…

— David Cross