Quotes About Satire

They could rename this town shithole and be accused of putting on airs.

When done right, it's possible to be silly and subversive at the same time.

HUMOR, LIKE METAPHOR, is simply two things placed side by side that don't belong together.

I think satire is at its best when it's taking on something that's really important, but doing it in a way that's funny and engaging.

I think satire is important because it helps us to see the world in a different way. It can challenge our assumptions and make us think more deeply about the issues that affect us all.

The great thing about satire is that it can be both funny and serious at the same time.

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

He has no proper nose.

Khalil Bendib, with a few ingenious strokes of his pen, gets to the heart of the issues of our time. His cartoons are in the greatest tradition of American political humor, with that combination of wit and intelligence so needed in the struggle for justice.

The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the Sixth Reich.

You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.

I was tempted to start babbling crazily about Walter Cronkite: that he was heavy into the white slavery trade—sending agents to South Vietnam to adopt orphan girls, then shipping them back to his farm in Quebec to be lobotomized and sold into brothels up and down the Eastern seaboard….

Fuck it, I said. I'm reading the Funnies.

Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.

I'm welding the bimbo room shut.

It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

OK, so we all know that 'Borat' is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) - but can anyone explain why the 'character' isn't roundly condemned for being as unacceptably racist as the one-dimensional stereotypes from 70s sitcoms such as 'Mind Your Language?'

I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.