Quotes About Satire

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Oh my god... Kerry is boring even when Bush is reading him.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.