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Quotes About Satire

I've never eaten a Hot Pocket and then afterwards been, I'm glad I ate that. I'm always like, I'm gonna die.
~ Jim Gaffigan
What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.
~ Wayne Knight
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
~ Jim Gaffigan
You look like a horse in a man costume
~ Dylan Moran
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.
~ Godfrey
As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.
~ Groucho Marx
I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.
~ Harold Ramis
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
~ Ian Mcewan
British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.
~ Jason Sellards
The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.
~ Jimenez Lai
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.
~ John Waters
I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.
~ Kevin Dillon
You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
~ Kyle Dunnigan
Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
~ Lewis Black
Anyone who thinks it's funny to name their network "Tom'sHugeEtc" is going to think it's funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.
~ Mallory Ortberg
A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.
~ Margaret Atwood
My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it.
~ Maria Semple
I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.
~ Mark Russell
I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.
~ Matt Groening
I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.
~ Maya Rudolph