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Quotes About Satire

That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.
~ Stephen Colbert, I Am America
A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
~ Salman Rushdie
I simply can't make jokes - the default value of every joke is a lie.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.
~ young edward iii
As we Chinese say, you don't have to pay tax on bullshit. That being so, why not bullshit to the max?
~ Yu Hua
That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
~ Zach Galifianakis
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
~ Zach Galifianakis
I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention ' it would be funny.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter.
~ zamyatin yevgeny ii
The more you know, the more you can make fun of.
~ Del Close
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.
~ Delta Burke
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
~ Italo Calvino
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.
~ Conan O'Brien
Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.
~ Ian McEwan, The Children Act
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
~ Will Rogers
Thank you, Facebook Quizzes, for helping me identify my Disney princess spirit, my old-person name, my mental disorder, and the color of my soul. All in one evening. Best, Ariel Harriet Schizophrenic Mauve.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
We're being led by an idiot with a crayon.
~ Eoin Colfer
Did you bring any food? I haven't eaten for, wow, it must be minutes.
~ Eoin Colfer