Quotes About Satire

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

I hope you accidentally drink leukemia at a picnic.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

I call my balls the bush twins.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

It's a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody's expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone's expense.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I have a dark sense of humor.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.