Quotes About Satire

People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.

'Squidbillies' is pretty educational.

I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.

I don't have email.

We've sussed that we've paid all this money to watch ourselves entertain ourselves. We have more members of the public on TV than on C&A's CCTV.

Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I think I've seen every 'Bill Maher' episode.

Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

He sat brooding, a Buddha who had overeaten at dinner, trying to sort wisdom out of the calories.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Il Re deve stare al gioco: non stipendia forse il Matto apposta per farsi contraddire e canzonare? È antica e saggia usanza nelle corti che il Matto o Giullare o Poeta eserciti la sua funzione di capovolgere e deridere i valori sui quali il sovrano basa il proprio dominio, e gli dimostri che ogni linea diritta nasconde un rovescio storto, ogni prodotto finito uno sconquasso di pezzi che non combaciano, ogni discorso filato un bla-bla-bla.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Everything had become so Twilight only without the sparklies.

New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler...

Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at

Yeah, if Mickey Mouse was a mass murderer.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.