Quotes About Satire

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.'

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

Laughs, just laughs. It's the only motivation of a comic.

The French satirist Molière once wrote, "A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one." Benjamin Franklin commented, "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

the terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a miserable set-up, as satirized brilliantly in the UK sitcom The Office.

The rusted-out VW bug is the national bird of Waitressland.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something about it. Thank you, Father Joe! I think I knew that once, but I'd forgotten. Contemptus mundi . We both have contempt for the world. You p-p-persist in your error, my son. Contemptus does not mean 'contempt.' It means 'detachment.' Are you detached from the things you satirize?

with all the sweetness of a chocolate-coated razor-blade.

A fool and his money are soon elected

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Let's put the fun back in funeral!

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

Life is nothing but a cock and bull story, and one of the best of its kind.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Virgin soap, Virgin cream ~ whatever next? Virgin trains?

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.

I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I'll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD of C+C Music Factory's Greatest Hits, but that's about it.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

The only exercise guru then was Richard Simmons—a flamboyant fuzzy-haired creature who vaguely resembled a gay Bozo the Clown, unless that's redundant, which I, thank God, have no way of knowing, having no, thank God, direct

Her other boyfriend before me was a druggie, too. I don't mean... he was a druggie. I like drugs, but he was a druggie . It's like she just goes out with people who take drugs so she can pick on them. Joan of Narc, patron saint of the addict. - Alex