Quotes About Satire

I have shot for a political satire by Anubhav Sinha called 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.'

For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted it to be.

I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.

'Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.

Talking about satire feels like death.

I don't buy the thing that you can't do satire in the age of Trump. You just have to be funny and figure out the angles.

I'm a 'Saturday Night Live' guy. I'm a comedy guy. As long as they're giving it to everyone, I don't care about how low they go, most of the time.

I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most.

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

I still talk incessantly about 'SCTV,' and I say, 'Screw the kids!'

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.

I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

I see parody as another form of comedy.