Quotes About Satire

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Deudor: un burro en un atolladero.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Pobreza: el resultado del matrimonio.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Tant qu'on fait rire, c'est des plaisanteries. Dès que c'est pas drôle, c'est des insultes. It's a joke as long as people are laughing. If it's not funny, it's an insult.

Mesdames, un conseil. Si vous cherchez un homme beau, riche et intelligent... Prenez-en trois !" Ladies, a word of advice. If you're looking for a handsome, rich and intelligent man… Take three!

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I'm always looking for ways to make people laugh, but I also want to make them think. That's the real challenge of satire.

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

To me, real humor is very serious. Mark Twain's humor in Huckleberry Finn is funny, but it's about very serious things. It's a deeper, richer laugh for me.

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint, is really aesthetically pleasing to my eyes and also funny.

I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

People are much more vicious about comedy than about anything else. If it's drama they go: 'Oh well, that didn't really work.' But comedy, they get angry. And people who never thought you were ever very funny go: 'Fantastic, we can really have a go now. Great!

In my comedy when there's a victim, it's me.

My humor was Victorian - and still is.