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Quotes About Satire

If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.
~ Lewis Niles Black
Dick Cheney...and that's all I've gotta say.
~ Lewis Niles Black
Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
~ Lewis Niles Black
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of your state. How can I, as a comedian, create a reality that encompasses that?
~ Lewis Niles Black
Trump divides his time between working some kind of 'King Ralph' angle, and claiming that he's going to make the U.S. great again by using his business experience. We can only assume that means repeatedly declaring it bankrupt, then changing its name so he can just shake off all the debt.
~ Frankie Boyle
'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
~ Aasif Mandvi
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
~ Jay Parini
I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
~ Edgar Wright
I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like, 'Oh, it's a cartoon.' There's mixed media. It's funny, and there's stop-motion. But as an adult, you figure it out, how the entire underpinnings of their comedy was poking fun at the rank and file of the British aristocracy and the monarchy.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
The people running Silicon Valley are not making the show because they want to do a satire of Silicon Valley. They are just comedy writers, and they want to make a funny show.
~ Daniel Lyons
'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.
~ Daniel Lyons
I really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I think it's awesome the show does that.
~ Reid Hoffman
The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.
~ Thomas Middleditch
If you think 'Game of Thrones' throws around some erroneous, unnecessary nudity, wait til you see 'Silicon Valley.'
~ Thomas Middleditch
I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.
~ Lenny Bruce
Suomi Suomi eikö meillä pelata shakkia ja jos pelataan niin millaisia saatanan nappuloita me ollaan? Ei kunua ei kuningatarta ja soltut talonpojat pelkkiä houruja, tornit hävinneet metsien myötä ja ratsut kaikki menossa makkaraksi, Suomi Suomi eikö sinulla ole kuin lähettejä, salkkuun rakastuneita kuriireja jotka luulee että maailma on liukuportaat ja himoitsee nukkua pressanlinnassa...
~ Jarkko Laine
Funeral = real fun.
~ Jarkko Laine
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
~ Jasper Fforde
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
~ Jasper Fforde
Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.
~ Jasper Fforde
They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.
~ Jasper Fforde
Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.
~ Jay Leno
Without raising a stink, Or even much of a laugh.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly
~ Unknown