Quotes About Satire

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

the old Warner Bros. cartoons, that studio can go to la chingada. It's this studio's fault that gabachos always try to imitate Mexicans with accents more refried than a Taco Bell special.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible.

She had shins like fireplugs and hips as wide as an oven door. Her head was stuck directly onto her shoulders with the usual Prussian predilection for omitting the neck, and to watch her turn her head in the direction of Aunt Marvel's yodeling demands for attention was to watch a large and noble owl.

Sleep well, gentlemen, for tomorrow we become connoisseurs of shite.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

Irony sort of reaches up and slaps you in the face sometimes, doesn't it?

Jersey the "armpit of the universe.

Bacon. Pig. Cops are pigs. Get it? Freaking hilarious, no?)

laughed as hard as I did—harder sometimes. I kept sneaking glances at her: shoulders shaking, handkerchief pressed to her mouth. I was happy she was having such a good time. I was no author, no satirist, no raconteur, but I did know that the humor of this man Clemens was different. Besides being funny, every word he spoke was the absolute truth.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.

There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.