Quotes About Satire

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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Normally, 'Saturday Night Live' is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.

With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

I'm generally not interested in Shakespeare or 'Broadchurch'. I only want to make people laugh, really.

People say, 'Oh, you're doing the job of journalists.' I think it's very important to note that we can't do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They'd be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him.

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.

You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.

Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything you want inside - it's all in there.

There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.