Aspect Quote by Josh Marshall

“The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses, but making…

— Kim R. Holmes

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

— Gad Elmaleh

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can…

— Anand Giridharadas

The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you…

— Bill Lawrence

It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some…

— Jim Gaffigan

Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and by the…

— Johnny Carson

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.…

— Al Franken

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now it's like…

— Michael Che

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a…

— Hedda Hopper

In a weird way, our satirists probably have the most complicated, nuanced views of our politics now - Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver.…

— Morgan Neville