Quotes About Satire

Birds and deer are a silly luxury, and all the fish should be floating.

Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns.

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.

sedÄ›l jsem tu v marné touze, chtÄ›l jsem srát, vÅ¡ak prdÄ›l pouze

Personas que conozco y que solían llevarse pornografía al cuarto de baño, ahora se llevan el catálogo de muebles de IKEA.

Beautiful, Grillo said. Would Swift approve? Fuck Swift. Somebody should have.

Why not remove his desk, bring in a treadmill, hang a carrot from the ceiling and stop all pretense already.

Sitcom white folk, movie-of-the-week white folk were our coon show.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Death often is the point of life's joke.

I loathe popular pulp, I loathe go-go gangs, I loathe jungle music, I loathe science fiction with its gals and goons, suspense and suspensories. I especially loathe vulgar movies—cripples raping nuns under tables, or naked-girl breasts squeezing against the tanned torsos of repulsive young males. And, really, I don't think I mock popular trash more often than do other authors who believe with me that a good laugh is the best pesticide.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

Style, after all, is a kind of humor, Something truly beneath contempt...

guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early do

Francine Prose's Blue Angel, Richard Russo's Straight Man, John Irving's The Water-Method Man. He doesn't

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture

Andrew, you are aware that no one should be that shade of orange unless they're an Oompa-Loompa,right?

For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies...

What do you get when you cross Ted Kaczynski with Monica Lewinsky? A dynamite blowjob!

I really loathe [the bumper sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!' Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a 7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.

Okay, let's see if I got this straight. The butt is the new breast, and the lower back is the new ankle. Now if only we could figure out where the brain has moved.

I think it would be funny to have one of those family decals showing a really skinny teenage girl barfing into a little chalk-outline bag (the bulimic in the family) or the dad figure dressed in the woman's underwear that he truly enjoys slipping into when no one's looking. Or the wife figure smiling with her exaggerated curly hair and tennis skirt, clutching a racket in one hand and a bottle of Stoli' in the other.