Quotes About Current events

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

I believe frontline journalism is important.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

I was a political junkie, and it just exhausted me, and after Obama won, I just kind of unplugged from all of that for a while.

I've never been good with current events, she told us. I always keep getting bogged down with simple things, like 'why are we here?

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'

There are certainly young people who are very aware of what's going on in this country, and we want to treat that with respect. We don't want to patronize our audience by just talking about the frivolousness. It's a balance.

Sometimes I'll be listening to NPR at the gym, and I'll hear them say, 'Oh, Donald Trump did this today.' And I'm like, 'What?' All of a sudden, I have more energy than if I drank an espresso.

You have to come to full realization of just how horrible things are. And this is how horrible things are: Donald Trump is almost the President of the United States.

News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

We're in the culture business. You are constantly monitoring cultural shifts, current events, shifts in mores, things that reflect society, and, at times, we try to drive it.

Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

What, you think that just because we're demons, we don't like to stay current with world events? You think we don't like to be entertained? We're demons, not Nazis!

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

You know how hard it's been to write material? Because to do stand-up comedy, it takes time for the material to develop. So you'll come up with a joke, you'll tweak it, you'll work it for six months, you really fine tune it, and now you've got a good bit. Well, with Trump, every day there's something new coming out.