Quotes About Satire

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.

I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.

People get so heated about it and can't see the funny side, I think. And plus, everything's been said. It must be really difficult to come up with new jokes about Brexit.

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

I enjoy humor with a poignant touch.

With comedic news, it's about having a point of view. If you don't have that, you don't have a show.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

I think 'Death Race 2000' is a classic, but it's a classic from the 1970s, and I think it's a particular kind of drive-in-exploitation movie satire masterpiece, and it was very much a movie of its time.

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination.

The early parodies that talk-show people did of rock n' roll in the '50s were terrible. They didn't know it, they didn't like it - and that's a lethal combination.

I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world - I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.

I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes.

I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

You know, as a comedian, that's what you do. You speak truth to power by making people laugh.

My job is literally clapping back every day online as a comedian.

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.