Quotes About Satire

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

The first Dying Earth sold three billion copies," I said. "Pilgrim's Progress," she said. "Mein Kampf. Once in a century. Maybe less." "But it sold three billion Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Strange to say, the English people were so pleased with this humorous sketch of themselves, that they bought eighty thousand copies of the work. Not often is a truth teller so rewarded.

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary column.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

They say love is blind…and marriage is an institution. Well, I'm not ready for an institution for the blind just yet.

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Satyr," he says, "is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body's Face but their Own; which is the chief Reason for that kind Reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

On his tombstone only three words were necessary:   HERE LIES VOLTAIRE

On his tombstone only three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys.

You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!

Gimmick of pay Rs.1 fine is to just make mockery of judiciary

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

He decided to try television, but it was all sex and zombies, serial killers and sad cops. The comedies weren't funny.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Hollywood's just not funny.

After a piece ran, a guy claimed I claimed I was from CNN. I never said that. But if you make a man comedically look like Hitler and it turns out that he is a retired lawyer with a lot of time on his hands, you're going to get sued. That's the lesson for today, children. STEVE

The outlandish 2000 election and Bush's victory had come along at the perfect time, helping Stewart, the correspondents, and the writers sharpen The Daily Show's tone of bemused mockery. The next world-changing events would have just as big an effect—and a late-night, basic cable comedy show would become an unlikely outlet for mourning, an antidote to anxiety, and gradually a center of principled, patriotic dissent.