Quotes from Adam Conover

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

I think the best comedy enlightens, informs, and changes the way people look at the world.

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 want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we're like, 'Oh yeah, that's been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?' And then we're going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.

I sort of expose the truth about common misconceptions, or you know, investigate why we do certain things culturally, why we have certain traditions, and ask the question, 'is this really the best way we can be doing things?'

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.

In my moments of greatest hubris, I say to myself, 'Yes, you should be trying to change the world.'

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.

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.

Narcissism is a fact of life - it's a natural part of growing older, right? It's a part of your development. So being angry about the younger generation being 'narcissistic,' that's like saying 'Oh, this young generation only wants to poop in their diaper! They don't want to use the bathroom!'

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!

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

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.

The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.

Social media is just more media.

I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.

A lot of the language about Millennials is extremely gendered.

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

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.

The Daily Show' was really a turning point, where people started to realize that comedy can have a true cultural impact and can have something to say that is serious.

Listen more than you speak.

My goal is to be able to speak to everyone in the country and to be able to make everyone in the country think differently about our political system.

I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.