Quotes About Satire

Man Rhage muttered, someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick. Until it broke.

Yeah, like Dieter from Sprockets." "Mike Myers is a god.

He was a tall, gangly, shy satirist who mumbled to you with his head turned away and always said funny things.

Let's face it: 'Twilight' is kind of an easy thing to make fun of.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

No, I don't think I'll ever get any stalkers, as I'm the stalker type myself.

My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!

Look, this CPAC convention is increasingly the Star Wars bar scene of the conservative movement. All that's missing from that convention is a couple of Wookies.

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck