Quotes About Satire

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'

I guess my favorite Web site would be theonion.com. I used to read that paper all the time in New York, and it still cracks me up. It's actually my homepage on my computer.

I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought that would be a really clear joke.

There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

I ate an entire wedge of 'brie' before I realized it was butter.

The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.

Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.

I've always loved the 'Weekend Update' people.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

It's always fun to write the little bit of TV that the characters watch in 'Gravity Falls,' because it's a perfect place to poke fun at the media.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at street hustlers. I didn't quite make as much money as one would gambling, but it was a lot safer.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.

I'm a comedian, not a politician.