Quotes About Satire

Honey, if we could cure stupid, I'd be out of a job.

Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O'Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker.

Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.

Rewards, my tender pigpiss.

How come everything in here looks black and white?" "Forgot to pay the color bill," I said. Actually,

Mark Twain made black people look like buffoons," [says Michael]. Mort doesn't look up. He doesn't know what we're talking about, but that doesn't stop him from joining the conversation. "Michael," says Mort, "Mark Twain made everybody look like buffoons. He was an equal opportunity buffoon maker.

For the fact is that it takes a great deal of self-confidence for a person to poke fun at himself, and a person with that kind of self-confidence is rarely a fool or a bungler.

A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.

This whole city's a Freudian slip of the tongue, a concrete hard-on for America's deeds and misdeeds. Slavery? Manifest Destiny? Laverne & Shirley? Standing by idly while Germany tried to kill every Jew in Europe? Why some of my best friends are the Museum of African Art, the Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. And furthermore, I'll have you know, my sister's daughter is married to an orangutan.

Strictly dickly Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Austerus verpa.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

It was horrifying. Khaki pants and polo shirts and exclamation points at the end of every sentence. Each introduction was like a kick in the groin. When someone made a bad joke it was like they'd taken a running start. I had to drop to one knee after this pale turtle-looking man with a huge Adam's apple and a headset touched his finger to his earpiece and said, "Houston, we have a new temp." I would never be able to have children.

Sometimes I think that we should send all of the Killer Mediums to Afghanistan because al-Qaeda wouldn't stand a chance.

Never be too amusing. An unfettered sense of humor is on the whole thought to be a good thing only for the poor - for the rich a sense of humor is a disaster.

There was the blow-up sex doll in a deckchair on the front porch, with a cucumber in its mouth slot and a sign around its neck saying "I claim this house in the name of Satan".

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Celia, you sound like Mrs Bennett.' 'I hope not,' said Celia briskly, 'she was an excessively silly woman.

He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.

It had a rear bumper sticker that read Legalize Recreational Plutonium.

In mockery of monumental stone.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.