Quotes About Satire

I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

A woman needs a man like a tuba needs a cucumber.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

I love men. They Taste like Chicken

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

You don't have to make fun of it. Actually I do, I said. I make fun of almost everything.

Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny.

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

Life sucks when your girlfriend won't!

Q. What should you do if you see your ex-husband rolling around in pain on the ground? A. Shoot him again.

Sarcasm is just one more service we offer.

If I want to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I'll put shoes on my cat.