Quotes About Satire

Les Escargot, a gourmet restaurant run by giant snails. The food's supposed to be great, but you wouldn't believe how slow the service is.

Sometimes you have to laugh at the absurdity of this system, so as not to cry.

Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. —DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize–winning American humorist

Fifty Shades of Chicken That's the title of Shaun's "most-gifted" book. Totally serious. I assumed it would be a complete joke, but it has nearly 700 reviews on Amazon and a 4.8-star average.

No te daré la felicidad", y la colocaría fuera de un gran centro comercial o de un concesionario de coches. ¿Sabes cuál sería un proyecto divertido de verdad? Comprar miles de loros y enseñarles a decir: "No te dará la felicidad" y, luego, soltarlos por los centros comerciales y grandes superficies de todo el mundo. Ésa es mi misión en la vida. ¿Alguien más se apunta? Hagámoslo.»

Americans would not mind higher taxes if they were wrapped in bacon

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

I like to think of myself as an equal opportunity offender.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

We should all laugh more at our elected officials - it's good for us and good for them.

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.