Quotes About Satire

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

A lot of the comedic work Ive done has been over-the-top, sketchy stuff.

The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Professor Ball has a thing about gays. His wife married one.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

Every 7 seconds there is a woman somewhere in the world giving birth to a child. We must find that woman and stop her!

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Mockery when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.