Quotes About Satire

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Yet at the same time humans are inherently irreverent. It was Saint Bonaventura, a thirteenth-century theologian, who said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind." We love to make fun of the higher-ups. We're always ready to bring them down. And the powerful know this all too well. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," as Shakespeare wrote.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.

all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring each of them. I think he was kidding; they'd never be able to do it but it's a great idea and would wake people up in this country.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

I saw a sign that said 'Drink Canada Dry'. So I did.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

arcipreste de Hita, en cuyo Libro de Buen Amor supo presentar (como Chaucer con sus obras en Inglaterra) una imagen fiel, a la vez que cargada de ingenio, de la vida de su tiempo.

over the dull cranium of Zola the chimneys are belching pure coke, while the Madonna of Sandwiches listens with cabbage ears to the bubbling of the gas tanks, those beautiful bloated toads which squat by the roadside.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.

For news, I follow 'The New York Times,' 'The New Yorker,' and 'ProPublica.' For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

The most offensive thing that ever occurred in 'The New Yorker' would be, like, the mildest thing at a Chris Rock concert.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.