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Quotes About Satire

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
~ Harry Shearer
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.
~ J.R. Ward
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
~ Jane Austen
Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad
~ Denis Leary
What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.
~ Keith Olbermann
They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.
~ Daniel Tosh
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
~ Mark Twain
I finally accepted Jesus. not as my personal savior, but as a man I intend to borrow money from.
~ George Carlin
Newt Gingrich's campaign is broke. All the money gone. So now he's charging $50 for a photo. And for $100 you can marry him.
~ David Letterman
Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!
~ Frankie Boyle
It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy started sniffing the girls panties.
~ Frank Zappa
Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.
~ Mo Rocca
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
~ Mae West
Jeff Ross has been roasting people since Whitney Cummings was nothing but a glint in the eye of the man who raped her mother.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.
~ Steven Morrissey
I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.
~ Les Dawson
Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
~ Phil Ochs
He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.
~ Lynn Viehl
I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.
~ Phyllis Diller
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!
~ Lewis Black
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
~ Jack Black
I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
~ Jasper Carrott