Quotes About Satire

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

My favorite animal is steak.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.