Quotes About Satire

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."

Politics is applesauce.

There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators.

Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny?

The tension between what is and what ought to be drives the growls against hypocrisy and the satirization of the self-satisfied and uptight.

Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.