Quotes About Satire

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

I would love to see everybody get a pony, don't get me wrong.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Even if I make fun of him, I try to portray him as a human being. Sometimes because he's the great Jean-Luc Godard, we see him as a concept.

Jaspal Bhatti saab was the one who uplifted the image of Sikhs on the national and international stage. There used to be a lot of satire on Sikhs earlier. A guy wearing a turban was portrayed as a joke, but since Bhatti saab entered cinema he changed the entire perspective and idiom of Sardar jokes.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

Sarah Cooper sounds like a character on 'The O.C.,' who was written out in season two, and it's like she moved into my body and gentrified my whole personality.

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.