Quotes About Satire

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

Women!" he muttered. "Can't live with 'em, can't escape even by killing 'em.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.

I started reading 'The Onion' when I was 13 years old.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?

Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.

The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.

Meanwhile, in the realm of Something Lower, where books are but numbers in a series, the hacks grind out and the presses print the sf equivalent of Silhouette Romances. The sheer mass of Perry Rhodan lookalikes and fantasy-gaming disguised as books is awesome in much the same way that Niagara Falls is awesome: there is so much of it and it never stops.

The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?

The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with the irresistible power of a diamond.

perfectly awful things. Farces,—that's what they are!

You've heard the joke," said Serge. "White pride is rotating the tires on your house.

We may have just slipped through some kind of white-trash worm-hole in the time-space continuum.