Quotes About Satire

People should be taught what is, not what should be. All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline.

A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada".

Satire is focused bitterness.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Bueno, querida —dijo el señor Bennet, cuando Elizabeth leyó la misiva en voz alta—, si tu hija enferma gravemente, si acaba muriendo, será un consuelo saber que todo fue para pescar al señor Bingley, y siguiendo tus órdenes

I do not understand you." "Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well." "Me? Yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." "Bravo! An excellent satire on modern language.

Como no la adulaban ni a ella ni a sus niños, no podía creer que fueran de buen natural; y como eran aficionadas a la lectura, las imaginaba satíricas: quizá no sabía exactamente qué era ser satírico, pero eso carecía de importancia. En el lenguaje común implicaba una censura, y la aplicaba sin mayor cuidado.

Dancing hotdogs don't say shit.

She looked like the senior version of an inflatable sex toy doll that needed more air.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.

My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.

The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.