Quotes About Satire

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

The British are so funny.

Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.

Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

All the religions are super funny to me.