Quotes About Satire

I think satire suffered under Obama, but not because of Obama. People are more sensitive now than ever, and strong satirical voices are stifled because of that. I don't think a Clinton presidency would change that.

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'

People love self-deprecating humor.

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.

Nobody's got a sense of humor anymore.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.

'Futurama' is this awesome, animated sci-fi show.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.

I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

The Westboro Baptist Church is no more a church than Church's Fried Chicken is a church.

Cause if there's one thing Islamic terrorists don't have is....(seriously thinking about it)....%#@&!

Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas . Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia !