#sitat

[norsk-skog]

[firedrunk]

Christa, seated on the highest and most ornate of the chairs, looked across the table with an expression worthy of one who had been through two world wars, revolution, the assassination of at least one king and one archduke, massive social dislocation and long spells of persecution, but had rarely allowed any of these events to interfere with her daily routine of bridge, tea and the smoking of fifty cigarettes.

Richard Basset, from Last Days in Old Europe

[erlendbv]

Rules make comedy fun, when there's things you can't do and there's kind of loopholes. That's when you start to really get creative.

Michael Che (host of Weekend Update on SNL, in an interview with Jimmy Fallon)

[lostforeverxlosttogether]

Noen ganger må man bare sette seg ned og drikke litt vin for å akseptere all dritten man ikke kan forandre.

@werbinich-stuff

[erlendbv]

I don’t think there were a lot of jokes coming *at* Obama, honestly. And I used to talk about this. The jokes about Obama, I called *flattery jokes*. Like, when I told a joke at the White House Correspondence Dinner (…) when it was about drones, it was like «Oh, shit! He slammed Obama!». I said, «Motherfucker, that’s what we’re supposed to do as comedians!».

Larry Wilmore on the challenge of political comedy in the post-Trump era

[erlendbv]

The things that you say, even if they’re crass or even if they in some ways are not respectful enough to the office of the presidency... we can insult, he can injure. It’s the difference between insult and injury, and for the life of me, I do not understand why in this country we try to hold comedians to a standard we do not hold leaders to. It’s bizarre.

Jon Stewart on the Colbert/Trump controversy in May 2017

[erlendbv]

That is sort of the overarching idea of the community that we’re trying to create in this show. It’s like ‘Everybody, in here. I want to tell these jokes. If you laugh at them, that means you understand my point of view. That means I’m not crazy.’ And I need that as a performer. That’s my honest like ‘Oh, you agree with that? Oh, fantastic!’ (…) And then the audience, hopefully, gets the sense of like ‘Oh, yeah, that’s right, that’s how I feel.’ And that’s the shared feeling. That’s the invitation and the intimacy between myself and 450 people or, you know…

Stephen Colbert on the Late Night-community (part 2 of 2)

[erlendbv]

As much as I want to do the show for the audience, I actually want their company. And in a way, what we do as the host of a show is that we’re giving the audience *our* company. We establish a community. (…) The host of the show establishes what the community is that night, what the party you’re throwing is. And I *need* the audience so much. What do we want to be? Not alone. That’s what we want. To *not* be alone.

Stephen Colbert on the Late Night-community (part 1 of 2)