Quotes About Satire

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

If the Holy Bible was printed as an Ace Double it would be cut down to two 20,000-word halves with the Old Testament retitled as 'Master of Chaos' and the New Testament as 'The Thing With Three Souls.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.

For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're still feeling undertained, there's George Lopez and Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel and - let's see, did we leave out a Jimmy?

I played Nelson Mandela in one thing for laughs - and I did it because this thing had come round from the BBC that we couldn't do it any more.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

Network was just never the right fit with what I think is funny.

As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.