Quotes About Satire

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

I can only parody stuff I love.

There's been a lot of Catholic parody - 'Nunsense,' 'Sister Mary Ignatius' - I think they've almost been done to death, actually.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Money's scarce Times are hard Here's your fucking Xmas card

there was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim." He

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I've been vocal about saying, 'Go for the smart joke.'

The concept of the characters in animal skins and us satirizing modern technology made it fun. But the voices we cast and the characterization of Fred Flintstone had a lot to do with it.