Quotes About Satire

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Stay in drugs, don't do school.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

A book is a beautifully written troll

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

La ironía es la mejor arma que poseen el periodista y el escritor.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

Molière'S great comic villains are perfect butts for the humorist's lash.

When the cadres banned his students from singing any actual Christmas carols in a stage version of ''A Christmas Carol,'' he had them substitute patriotic Communist songs -- which actually improved Dickens: ''My favorite scene was when a furious Scrooge swung his cane at a band of merry carolers who were belting out 'The East Is Red,' singing the praises of Mao Zedong while the old man shouted, 'Humbug!