Quotes About Satire

You can actually make your own Trump policies by going through the incinerator at the Daily Mail and picking through the dust for anything they thought might get them prosecuted.

Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

We're more effective than birth control pills.

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.

With the wacky jokes that we do on 'Great News,' you do overall still want to be coming from a place of truth with your character because, otherwise, it's just off the walls.

I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.

My father was Donald Trump, and my mother was Hillary Clinton, and my grandmother was Nancy Pelosi. And I was - I wanna say, Mike Pence, 'cause he's the gayest one.

They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.

For me it's the funniest show on TV. 'Benidorm' is such old-school, 'Carry On,' panto humour. It's so warm.

I'm probably as royal as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.

I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

looked at me as though I were moments away from licking all the doorknobs at the Red Roof Inn.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Khalil Bendib is an equal-opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass media, the more he infuriates, informs, and intensifies the reader's attention. Cartoons need to jolt. Bendib obliges page after page.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

an anonymous democrat was able to place an ad in the Times of India announcing the 'death of D. E. M. O'Cracy, mourned by his wife T. Ruth, his son L. I. Bertie, and his daughters Faith, Hope, and Justice'.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

'Camp' sort of means you don't know what you're doing, and we know what we're doing.