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Quotes About Satirical

Die, thou badger-shagging spunk monkey, said I.
~ Christopher Moore
Kill the rich, fuck the middle class, marry the poor! Chomsky out!
~ Noam Chomsky
and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.
~ Jane Austen
Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but THAT did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.
~ Jane Austen
Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly
~ Unknown
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
~ Kevin Kline
I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.
~ Tom Lehrer
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny
~ Dashiell Hammett
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
~ William Shatner
Nobel prize for pornography.
~ Jim Butcher
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.
~ Terry Pratchett
10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
~ Neve Campbell
One thing to remember about this prediction: "President Trump" was the punchline to the setup, "What's the dumbest thing we could imagine America doing?" When the news of the world becomes jokes on The Simpsons, that's satire. But when jokes on The Simpsons become the news of the world—well, that's just fucked up.
~ Unknown
Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
~ Neve Campbell