Quotes About Satire

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

I was watching the devastations of the Kashmir floods, and a reporter was asking a local, who had just lost her house and her son, how she was feeling. I was stunned at the insensitivity. I did a 10-15 second satire on it and put it up on Facebook.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny.

Now, I'm not onboard with the argument that jokes are destructive to humanity. There are bigger issues, and I do not necessarily subscribe to the belief that jokes perpetuate violence and racism. They lampoon those things most of the time. But I could be wrong about that. I'm not a sociologist or an expert.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I love comedies, both broad and subtle.

I think humor and protest can be subtle, instead of loud and going to the level of violence.