“I need to say how I feel.aIf you were a political person before, and you just happened into a movie, to stop being a political person makes no sense. I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.” IfsNeedsFeelsFirstsPersonsPoliticalLaughingHappened Author:Kathy Najimy
“You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.” PeopleWantNeedsHomePoliticalNightRealizingHoursDarkViewsLaughingMonthsOne NightPolitical View Author:Billy Gardell
“Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.” UsePoliticalNationsWhiteAudienceLaughingWeaponsLaughterTerrorismPhrasesCapitalistPatriarchyLecturesPolitical Systems Book:The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Source: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.” PeopleDoeRealFactsPoliticalSocialPartyEffortLaughingTroubleReadyToolsFortunePrivilegeTraditionalReformMannersContradictionRoughDisgustingPrivilegedPolitical PartiesBoostGazing Author:Thomas Frank
“In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsIdeasMightPoliticalLaughingComedyPossibilityLaughterAgreeClimateImprovementCategoriesSneakPossibility Of Change Author:Kate Clinton