Quotes About Critique

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

The purpose of art is subversion. Art is telling the world how it's killing you. How its institutions have failed you. In the end, any culture worth damn is made by subversives. Because art is what tells the world it needs to change. Power merely redecorates it.

Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.

The eighty-year-old scholar had openly criticised Bhindranwale for storing arms and ammunition in the Akal Takht, and had said that Bhindranwale's presence in the shrine was sacrilege. The hukmnama against Bhindranwale was never issued.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

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.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

All the religions are super funny to me.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations.

I've often been criticised, but never critically wounded

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger