Media Quotes - Page 144

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

Hopefully the only things off-limits are crummy jokes, but being a standup comedian, I know that's not always the case... You know it when you have to take a shower afterward.

I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box. The news box is moving towards me.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.

Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we're told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.

New York is a different breed than any other city there is. Media can be very hard on you at times, but [Patrick Ewing] did handle it like a man. He was able to prosper in that whole atmosphere.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.

It's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans can go and talk and congregate and trade stories and a band could communicate news very quickly and in a worldwide basis. I'm sure that's helped in bringing in this case us to more of the forefront of peoples attention.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

A lot of comedy clubs are set up with people sitting at little tables and you have everything from the way they are seated to them ordering or taking a sip of a drink, these can make a comedian go harder and faster in a club.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.