Quotes About Satire

About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to she was not she, which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It Helps!

She'd never really liked the book. It seemed to her that it tried to tell her what to do and what to think. Don't stray from the path, don't open that door, but hate the wicked witch because she is wicked. Oh, and believe that shoe size is a good way of choosing a wife.

We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?' 'Why?' 'It saves time.

He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then saying something obviously joking.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

I love Jon Stewart.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.

I watch a lot of U.S. comedy, shows such as 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Veep.' I love Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her character in that show.

I think it'd be a lot of fun to jump back into the comedy world.

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

I think the way comedy is represented on screen is it's either all fart jokes - and it's just laughter for the sake of laughter - or it's one of those things where it's just kind of very preachy, very heavy-handed.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.