Quotes About Satire

SPAM is my god. It's the only deity that can be eaten raw or fried.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ASSHOLES, BABY? YOU'VE GOT AN ASSHOLE, I'VE GOT AN ASSHOLE! YOU GO TO THE STORE AND BUY A PORTERHOUSE STEAK, THAT HAD AN ASSHOLE! ASSHOLES COVER THE EARTH! IN A WAY TREES HAVE ASSHOLES BUT YOU CAN'T FIND THEM, THEY JUST DROP THEIR LEAVES. YOUR ASSHOLE, MY ASSHOLE, THE WORLD IS FULL OF BILLIONS OF ASSHOLES. THE PRESIDENT HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE CARWASH BOY HAS AN ASSHOLE, THE JUDGE AND THE MURDERER HAVE ASSHOLES . . . EVEN THE PURPLE STICKINPIN HAS AN ASSHOLE!

We're forced into absurd lives, against which the only sane response is to wage a guerrilla operation of humour and lust and madness.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

Zircoff, I said, put the tomatoes away. Piss, he said, I wish they were hand grenades.

either they're trying to upsell you a fifty-quid-a-head artisanal pork pie (serving this week: Peppa Pig's Uncle Bertie's left haunch, marinaded in a drizzle of preschoolers' tears) or

The jokes. The jokes. The fucking endless jokes.

It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.

I thought maybe she was trying to be funny but then realized this was impossible to do without a sense of humor.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

'Black Mirror' is definitely my favorite show.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.

If you're mocking anyone, make sure it's those at the top of the food chain, not the bottom.

Most modern comedy is crap.

Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons - Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns.

That's how I hope to die: on my deathbed, watching 'Real Housewives of the Moon.'

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.