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Quotes About Satire

Say what you will, I've done more for Capital reconstruction than the president himself', Sejanus joked halfheartedly.
~ Suzanne Collins
Maybe her gravestone could read, "Casualty of cheap laughs.
~ Suzanne Collins
'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whole idea was to be very irreverent.
~ Roisin Murphy
Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
~ Lynne Truss
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
~ Frans de Waal
I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.
~ Mo Rocca
On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.
~ Joel McHale
There's always a source for humor.
~ Calvin Trillin
If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.
~ Phil LaMarr
'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.
~ Blake Anderson
Now 'South Park' - they are interested in blasphemy. They're interested in creating offence for its own sake.
~ David Baddiel
I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.
~ Joel Madden
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
~ Kinky Friedman
I am not mean I am just sarcastically humorous
~ Anonymous
He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
~ Barry Humphries
Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
except to make fun of them or provide a historical reference.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The sun is a joke.
~ Nathanael West
Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whoever invented the spork should be killed.
~ Neal Shusterman
Are you calling me stupid?says Emby. I think I just did. Hayden laughs. Hey, the Mouth Breather's right-unwinding does help people. If it wasn't for unwinding, there would be bald guys again-and wouldn't that be horrible?
~ Neal Shusterman
what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For
~ Neal Shusterman