Quotes About Satire

Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)!

Without a sense of humor, you are blind to so much in this world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

When asked if he knew about Pac-Man, Reagan quipped: "Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought it was Tip O'Neill.

If a third of the stories in the Decameron mock religion, two-thirds celebrate sex.

Aretino was a satirist on the noble if futile quest to reform his corrupt society by shoving its face in its worse excesses. (Futile because has any society ever reformed itself after being shown the error of its ways by a satirist? anywhere? ever?)

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

How can there be self-help groups?

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.

Women. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.

I donated my body to science...fiction.

I'm donating my body to science...fiction.

This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

Are we happy? I am God, I have created this parody]

Sue Townsend

Sue Townsend

Sir Bumbuggerer

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about getting on their soapbox and complaining.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.