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Quotes About Satire

Does anybody really survive 'Sharknado,' including the viewer?
~ Josh Barnett
Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
~ Steve Breen
For me, my party views don't advance my narrative. Until I can find a way to write political satire like my idols Christopher Buckley or P.J. O'Rourke, I'll simply say what team I play for and leave it at that.
~ Jen Lancaster
In a weird way, our satirists probably have the most complicated, nuanced views of our politics now - Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver. I don't know what that says about our country.
~ Morgan Neville
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
~ Isaac Barrow
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.
~ Vera Farmiga
Shore Leave is the one who evolved the most - because he started as a one-off joke because we were gagging on how the G.I. Joe vocationally specific-themed characters reminded us of the Village People. We made a sassy Village People kind of guy, and then we brought him back.
~ Christopher McCulloch
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
~ Dave Barry
It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.
~ Trey Parker
I will say, 'The Michael J. Fox Show' is funnier than 'Breaking Bad' - not that 'Breaking Bad' isn't funny, but this is funnier and slightly less violent.
~ Betsy Brandt
Language in comedy is very violent.
~ Jim Norton
I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
~ Louis C.K.
Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks, the cover said.
~ Louise Penny
We don't need to send in the clowns! They are already here!
~ Unknown
He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers. 'Gentlemen,' said he, 'here is one man milking a billy-goat, and another catching the proceeds in a sieve.
~ Unknown
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!
~ John Betjeman
The Goon Show
~ John Cleese
I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.
~ John Cleese
My ex boyfriends facebook status said 'Suicidal and standing on the edge.' ...So I poked him.
~ Unknown
Don't fall in love. Fall off a bridge, it hurts less.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I think Ill give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
~ Dorothy Parker
Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'
~ David Letterman
What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.
~ Elvis Costello
I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster!
~ William Shakespeare