Quotes About Satire

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.

I can cross the line when I'm making fun of people.

I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

We've always been interested in the commentary on politics and society and how comedy always sort of cuts that with a nice laugh, and the perspective it brings.

It is true what is said in Washington - 'No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to catch up.'

I'm not cynical at all.

I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

How many times have you been watching an episode of 'South Park' and thought, 'I'd like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled by my tablet device which is hooked into my oven, all while sitting in the refrigerator?'

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters; everyone just put on a name tag and started improvising.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington D.C. If I say 'comedian,' people automatically assume that you're a comedian who talks about how his wife won't listen to him and that dummy down at the mechanic who wouldn't fix his car.

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

Proximity to normalcy is a nice turn of phrase; you ought do a needlepoint, frame it and shove it straight up your ass. Keep it there with the rest of your wisdom.