Quotes About Satire

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

Oh man, there's no shortage of craziness happening on the American landscape right now. I'll turn on the TV every day or check out the newspaper, and there is something to find humor in or something to find absolute fear in. Either way, it makes for good comedy.

U.S.A. Today is what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

There are a lot of people who are considered 'camp' who have no idea how ridiculous they are.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

already a national institution: a cartoon cad

Some of it can, of course. The new satirical shows

so julian bond was elected president and rap brown chief justice of the supreme court and nixon sold himself on 42nd street for a package of winstons

I've never known which is funnier—Aerosmith writing "Dude Looks Like a Lady" about Vince, or Dire Straits writing "Money for Nothing (and Chicks for Free)" about Mötley. SEPTERMBER

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

The Brady Bunch Movie, released in February of 1995

Most episodes of Seinfeld circuitously forward two worldviews: The first is that most people are bad (and not very smart). The ­second is that caring about other people is absurd (and not very practical). It is the most villainous sitcom ever made, particularly since its massive audience never seemed to fully grasp what it was literally seeing.

His computer password is password.

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

Right now, me get­ting killed would be redun­dant.

Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties...