Quotes About Satire

Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes

He would insult the universe. That is, he would insult everyone in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and in alphabetical order.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

They ate so much food out of the can, the jar, the tinfoil, the box, that the youngest thought her mother's name was Sara Lee.

Probably tastes like a pocket calculator garnished with dried herpes juice flakes.

Federal and provincial politicians were about as functional and helpful as Peter, Chris, Stewie and Brian Griffin drinking ipecac together on Family Guy.

El dinero es ridículo! ¡El crédito es ridículo! ¡Convenga usted en que la vida tiene mucho de ridículo!

I make a good income and I only kill a reasonable number of my patients. How's that?

Come out with all the old inane cliches and curl a sardonic lip at them.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

Unfortunately, ..., all too often a joke tells the truth.

I'm not going to write stuff like, "Mitch McConnell and I may disagree, but when we're off the clock, we're the best of friends—sometimes we go to dinner and Mitch will laugh so hard that milk shoots out of his nose." No, I'm not going to be writing clichés like that. Instead

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

You can only get so many belly laughs out of nihilism and the price of black eyeliner.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

'The Daily Show' is a cultural phenomenon.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.