Quotes About Satire

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.