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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

I think satire suffered under Obama, but not because of Obama. People are more sensitive now than ever, and strong satirical voices are stifled because of that. I don't think a Clinton presidency would change that.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

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.