Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Conover
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.
Into the Breach' is a wonderful strategy game where you play that you are trying to stop an alien invasion. But of course, 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' and 'Super Mario Odyssey' are just two of the most superlative games ever made, and so when I have time to completely lose myself in those, it's really, really a joy.
The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.
Los Angeles is a rich city; California is a rich state; the United States is a rich country. The money is out there, and Los Angeles teachers are demanding that it be spent where it belongs, on our kids.
I find that I have a lot of suppressed energy when I'm on a plane for a long period so when I'm holding a fidget spinner, being able to play with it and just sort of run my hands over it helps me out quite a lot; it helps me relax.
I'm a naturally curious person.
I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'
What people say about millennials is the same thing they've said about every generation: Younger people are obsessed with technology, and selfish, and they're lazy, and they live with their parents... Guess what? That's 'cause they're young people!
I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.
Growing up as a comedian the most influential person on me was Jon Stewart. He showed that comedy could have a real tangible effect on the world. He showed that comedy could move the needle of society and that a comic can do real things and make a real contribution.
Social media is just more media.
I get messages from 21-year old white dudes who have just gotten out of an expensive college and say 'Hey can I pick your brain?' and I have nothing to say to them because A. They already have all the advantages and B. My advice would be the same as anyone else: Go do open mics.
It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.
We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.
I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.
My goal as a comedian is to sway people's opinion. It's not my only goal and it's not the only way I measure myself.
I want people to know the truth. That's what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.
As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.
I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.
On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'
The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
Doing a format parody is one of my favorite things to do in comedy.
Employ empathy.
It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.
In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'
I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.
I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.
I hate cars; in terms of what they do to nature and personally I just don't like driving them. I think they're a very bad way to design a transportation system.
There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'
Listen more than you speak.
There is nothing better than getting to just dig in and seriously play a video game for a six-hour flight from New York to L.A.
Comedy has no rules, per se.
I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.
Comics are regularly asked to perform for impossible rooms. They're called 'hell gigs.'
The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala invitations and posing for photos in hopes that a bit of that edgy satirical shine will rub off on them.
It's only when you get towards the top that people start throwing you down a rope. It's like a law of nature, and it makes me think a lot about what my responsibility is to folks who are further down the hole where I was - how I can offer them help and how I can try to help change the structure of American society.
I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.
In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.
I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.
I can't think of another place other than TV where a five-person sketch comedy group could make a living.
I think that people are more eager to learn about food than almost every other topic.
One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.
We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.
Your date of birth is a security point for identity theft.
Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.
Security theater is the idea of putting on a big show of security in order to make people feel safe. That's why the TSA screens everything and takes your stuff away.
If it weren't for the fellow union members and leaders who have my back, the barons of the TV industry would happily pay me a nickel a page and spend what would have been my residuals on more caviar to put in their infinity pools.
All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.
At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'
Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.
I wrote for this sketch group called Olde English for about six years and we made a movie together, but we sort of stopped making sketches.
I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.
A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered.
No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes.
I've always been kind of an information sponge.
You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.
I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I'm traveling, all bets are off, but I don't cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I'll have some meat. But I know, personally, that's the best I'm ever going to do in my life.
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.
I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing.
In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.
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