Quotes About Satire

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

All comedy is really talking about social issues and things that are affecting our lives.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

My generation grew up on 'The Daily Show.' Jon Stewart gave me solace. He was the only person who I felt defended Muslims when crazy things were happening; the only place you could find a nuanced take on Iraq was Jon Stewart's show.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax, but it was absolutely intended to be a joke. The problem was that I really was on a quest to somehow be a Caucasian Ol' Dirty Bastard.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.

Comedy is life, built big perhaps, but always built true.

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

Your Life our your lupines! Dennis Moore

Love indeed - whoever invented love ought to be shot.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

Lumea asta nu va muri de o bomb? atomic?, aÅŸa cum spun ziarele, ci va muri de râs, de banalitate, f?când o glum? din tot ÅŸi din toate ÅŸi, în plus, o glum? proast?.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

Este mundo no se morirá de una bomba atómica como dicen los diarios , se morirá de risa, de banalidad, haciendo un chiste de todo, y además un chiste malo.

Il mondo non verrà distrutto da una bomba atomica, come dicono i giornali, ma da una risata, da un eccesso di banalità che trasformerà la realtà in una barzelletta di pessimo gusto.

Ce monde ne mourra pas d'une bombe atomique, comme le disent les journaux, il mourra de rire, de banalité, en transformant tout en farce et, de plus, en mauvaise farce.