Top 42 Quotes by Mo Rocca

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

I bruise like a grape.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

I am a kamikaze gadfly.