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Quotes About Satire

All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
~ Bo Burnham
If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them
~ Steven Wright
North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.
~ Lewis Black
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
~ Lewis Black
Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
~ Saul Alinsky
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
~ Mark Twain
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.
~ Langston Hughes
Get a in clothes dryer with Magic Johnson and some razorblades.
~ Jim Norton
Do you think George Bush actually knows who Gordon Brown is? He probably just thinks Tony Blair's put on weight and had a mild stroke.
~ Frankie Boyle
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
~ George Orwell
Sometimes I... No, I don't.
~ Steven Wright
Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.
~ Lewis Black
She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.
~ Red Skelton
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
~ Philip Roth
The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.
~ George Carlin
If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
~ Michael O'Donoghue
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.
~ Milton Jones
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
~ Stephan Pastis
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
~ Marty Feldman
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
~ Erma Bombeck
I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.
~ Bill Hicks
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
~ Steve Allen