“盡管喜劇不能改變世界，但它仍是一個重要的風向標 — 我們就是煤礦裏的香蕉皮”。覺得這就是先進文化的一個側麵吧。

"Comedy doesn't change the world," he told the audience, "but it's a bellwether. We're the banana peel in the coal mine.

When a society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first. It's just a reminder to people that democracy is under threat. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to poetry, to progress, to all those things."