Quotes About Satire

y en la risotada de un país gozoso con el chiste fácil que humilla a los débiles.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Our original idea was to write a book titled Fifty Shades of the Hunger Games, by J.K. Rowling with Stephen King: A John Grisham Novel.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

When I read this, naturally my reaction as a concerned American was hahahahahahahahaha.

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are imposing on this great country.

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.

You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they're somehow perversely good? This was worse than that.

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.