Quotes About Satire

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what is the secret recipe of your happiness?Master of Stupidity: If I tell you, there is nobody left to be made fun of.

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

There's such a rich history in 'SNL' of political humor, and I think audience members expect that from us.

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God, I hope it lands in Hartford.