Quotes About Satire

There are no cartoons about happy marriages.

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

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

HOMÅ'OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

Sometimes there was no gap between joke and real.

First of all, as you know, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide everyone into two kinds of people and those who don't. But actually, there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

What are you thinking about?" "This guy I know went into a sex shop and asked the proprietor for a blow-up sex doll." "Is this a joke?" "So the proprietor asks, 'You want a Christian doll, a Jewish doll, or a Muslim doll?' And the guy says, 'What difference does it make?' And the proprietor says, 'Well, the Muslim dolls blow themselves up.

On 'The Daily Show,' we get so caught up in the day-to-day news cycle. A story breaks, and then the piranhas in late night, we all jump to the headline, and we dissect it, and then we have to move on to the next day.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Musicals are just funny to me.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

Gingivitis has been eroding the gum line of this great nation long enough.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.