Quotes About Satire

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.

I've watched 'The Daily Show' forever. So being a part of it is surreal.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.

She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all.

Diálogo cínico não é humor espirituoso.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

The ludicrous idea that believing is something you can decide to do is deliciously mocked by Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, where we meet the robotic Electric Monk, a labour-saving device that you buy 'to do your believing for you'. The de luxe model is advertised as 'Capable of believing things they wouldn't believe in Salt Lake City'.

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.

We don't always want to read about everyday things – and that silly stuff is so much fun to parody.

Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul

pustular berk with the charisma of a plimsole

If sarcasm were gold, she would have just made her fortune.

Qué en qué consiste el comunismo?, pues en que me la comas ahora mismo. Te falta fábrica Karl Marx - 1873

I stopped listening to Justin. I don't think he likes to leave anything as nature intended. He'd iron out the lump on a camel's back and get a pelican to have its throat lifted.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.