Quotes About Satire

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

Wit puts politicians at risk.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.