Quotes About Satire

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.

It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.

Comedians shame people.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

Either you're a political comedian or you're a stand-up. Just talking about politics isn't enough. People who talk about airplane food, you don't call them airplane comedians.

You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's actually not funny.

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.

A lot of Christmas episodes of comedies are comedies trying to be dramas.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.

Channel 4 always do really great stuff; they do great comedies.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

It's funny: There's a lot of comics on 'Breaking Bad.'

Comedians play off of social commentary.