Quotes About Satire

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.

People think they are not allowed to laugh at art, but they are. Damien Hirst laughs at himself. I know Jake and Dinos Chapman and they laugh all the time at what they do and at other artists.

I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

Our country's social revolution lends itself to jokes and I use them.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

I love me some 'Family Guy.'

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

I really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine, but I want to do it for the average American family.

'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.

When I started stand-up, it was really just to have a go at alpha males essentially, there was no plan and there never has been really.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

This country is toilet-oriented.

Como observa el satírico James Branch Cabell, «los optimistas dicen que vivimos en el mejor de los mundos posibles; los pesimistas temen que sea verdad».528