Quotes About Satire

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house.

He had not been much of a poet, but poet enough for his love-sonnets and satires to weaken his lungs.

U was zawsze ironia i ironia.

Sarcasm. Because beating the crap out of people is illegal.

I'm allergic to stupidity. I break out in sarcasm.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

The real achievement of the script and the people making it is that they throw the kitchen sink at us... and it all works. Daleks, Anne Robinson, the end of a complicated storyline, tears, jokes, action, more Daleks, romance, pathos, satire, an outrageous cheat and more Daleks than we have ever seen even in drawings we did as eight year olds. And then David Tennant shows up, and we realise we ain't seen nothing yet.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit.

I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

Trump is like a Shakespearean 'fool': he seems crass because he speaks the truth.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce