Quotes About Satire

People never think things that are true are funny.

Faulkner's Fried Food and Funeral Parlour. You die – we fry.

I celebrated last Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." – Jon Stewart

It's a serious world, someone has to make fun of it.

the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera

The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks's The Producers. In

even the word humanism made me want to vomit, but that might have been the canapés.

I've been married so many times my certificate now reads: 'To Whom It May Concern.'

The famous Don Quixote de la Mancha, other wise called the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance.

LITTERATURE: le meilleur papier hygiénique du siècle

So Smithers is the first man in history to go from black and straight to white and gay. The second was Michael Jackson.

I began to think a joke was not truly good unless someone got hit for telling it.

One thing to remember about this prediction: "President Trump" was the punchline to the setup, "What's the dumbest thing we could imagine America doing?" When the news of the world becomes jokes on The Simpsons, that's satire. But when jokes on The Simpsons become the news of the world—well, that's just fucked up.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

That's what she said.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Um, Mindy is much less like Elizabeth Bennet than she is a combination of Carrie Bradshaw and Eric Cartman.

One of the great things about women's magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts huge and lips plump up to the size of two bratwursts.

and I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas.

I'm sad that a legitimate rung on the ladder of making it in comedy is writing hateful stuff about total strangers. I don't know.

In an attempt to achieve the cheeky, gay-centric tone of the show, I had written a sample so over-the-top offensively gay that it actually reads like a propaganda sketch to incite antigay sentiment.

One of the great things about women's magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts huge and lips plump up to the size of two bratwursts. Maybe

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.