Quotes About Satire

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

There is no way I would ever want to be president for a second. It's much easier to make fun of them on the stage and get paid for it. With all the years of me lampooning the presidents in my act, I know I could never ever want that job.

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

I don't have courage in my convictions and I'm not interested in serious things or politics: if you're doing an hour of standup, you should talk about a few serious things.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It's not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.