Quotes About Satire

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

The Daily Show' was really a turning point, where people started to realize that comedy can have a true cultural impact and can have something to say that is serious.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

This satire business, that was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. I was certified funny. From then on, I had to be funny - people expected it. Twice the work for the same pay.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.

South Park called...they want their everything back.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on their butts.

If I eat another hamburger, I'll start to moo. - Rachel

i eat babies

You know, I've seen 'Beavis and Butthead,' and I thought it was just some warped fictional exaggeration of male immaturity, but I can see now that the show is based on you.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...