“尽管喜剧不能改变世界，但它仍是一个重要的风向标 — 我们就是煤矿里的香蕉皮”。觉得这就是先进文化的一个侧面吧。

"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."