Quotes About Satire

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Do you want the truth or the politically correct version? The truth is that I go plastic, it's so much easier. And I like to put the bags over my head at night when I sleep, which I think all the kids at home should try. Kidding!!

So far my best plan would be to build a mountain of gasoline cans and explosives, stick a Property of US Government sign on it, and throw a T-shirt over Pierce's head when he showed up to explode it. Yes, this would totally work. If only.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review, a collection of songs and sketches, preferably with a satirical bias.

When the audience knows you know better, it's satire, but when they think you can't do any better, it's corn.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well, I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

My prayer to God is a very short one "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous!" God has granted it.

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.