Quotes About Satire

Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the collective seat of our humble profession.

If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.

Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.

Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats...

What I do best are the absurdities of daily life: I observe, add up these observations, increase them to the nth degree and draw the square root from them, but with a different factor from the one I increased them by.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741), a scurrilous burlesque, written mostly by John Arbuthnot, that poked fun at Grub Street twittishness. He chose this indelicate item because it was a source of interesting words like 'chicanery', 'confidant', 'troglodyte' and 'piazza', and even the distinctly modern-sounding 'skylight'.

Jane Collier's Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (a spoof conduct book published in 1753)

Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

the memory of the constant Meccan taunting of Muhammad and the harassment of his early followers would lie behind the worldwide outbreak of anger at the well-informed satire of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses and at the 2005 publication in a Danish newspaper of crude cartoons of Muhammad.

Springsteen] sort of catarrh-mumbles his ditties in a disgruntled mushmouth like Robbie Robertson on Quaaludes with Dylan barfing down the back of his neck.

Donald Trump is on the show tonight. Donald is a big man, I think 230 pounds -- 235 with cologne.

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix-up and he was greeted by seventy-two vegans.

British Petroleum said today that if this spill gets worse, they may have to start drilling for water.

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Dick Cheney ... and that's all I gotta say. Isn't it great that we've reached that point? You don't even have to say "Dick Cheney, the Vice President who shot his friend in the face while hunting". "Dick Cheney", everybody goes "Waha!" and we move on.

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

He thought he saw an Elephant,That practiced on a fife:He looked again, and found it wasA letter from his wife."At length I realize," he said,"The bitterness of Life!"

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.