Quotes About Satire

Life's a bitch. Then you marry one.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Comedy Is Not Pretty!

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

I want to see good-quality comedy shows, not the slapstick ones or where people imitate others.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

My jokes have definitely changed. 'SNL' has helped with that, because when you're on 'SNL,' you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

I really just love dumb humor. I watch a lot of SNL.

I've always been an 'SNL' fan.

I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

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But The Master and Margarita is true to the broader sense of the novel as a freely developing form embodied in the works of Dostoevsky and Gogol, of Swift and Sterne, of Cervantes, Rabelais and Apuleius.