Backfire Quote by David Letterman

John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech.…

— Jay Leno

Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and…

— Conan O'Brien

John Kerry made a joke about Bush being a moron, and now Bush wants morons to think it was a joke was about the…

— Bill Maher

The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny - and…

— Jon Lovett

You can sometimes sneak a political joke in, which is sometimes the most effective place for a political joke - when it's not expected.…

— Jeremy Hardy

I'm not really political in my comedy, and I'm not looking to have the best joke about Trump or the best joke about whatever…

— Esther Povitsky

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

— Will Rogers

There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate…

— Matt Walsh

“When Trump declared his candidacy for real in 2015, I thought it was another joke, like a lot of people did. By then, he’d…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Few years ago [Donald] Trump was being roasted by Comedy Central. They always have rules about things that you can't joke about. Donald Trump's…

— Ben Domenech

“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

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

— Bob Hope