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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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