Quotes About Satire

Yes, I still love 'South Park ' but I also love morning TV now.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche." "La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir.

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, reflecting on Bush's "stay-the-course" strategy, said, "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drillin' rights on that man's head.

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

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Comedy is a funny way of being serious. My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Humor is angry honesty, like an eruption of truth, a volcano on which it is written: Enough.

A comedian's life is truly a comedy in itself. The majority cannot take themselves seriously.

Everyone loves Hershey's Kisses and Hugs. I'm waiting for Hershey's Gropes.

I'd love to change the world, but I can't find a big enough diaper.

Parody was one way Americans safely digested their class politics.

Within a day Mercy heard the news. She never forgot it. A few months later, that riot became the backdrop for her first political satire.

They went off to the Holy Land and went from Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox, which to me sounds like a repackaged detergent–ORTHODOX ULTRA®, now with more deep-healing power.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. —Herman Wouk

In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.

How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship is not a necessity when all political discourse takes the form of a jest.

There are two ways by which the spirit of a culture may be shriveled. In the first—the Orwellian—culture becomes a prison. In the second—the Huxleyan—culture becomes a burlesque. No

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians.