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There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

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.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

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

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.