Quotes About Satire

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

The 'Dead' films allow me to talk about things that a drama, say, won't. 'Dawn Of The Dead,' which was set in a shopping mall, is on one level about consumerism; 'Land Of The Dead' is a response to Bush.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

'Veep' is a great satire of democracy.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

There are bands that make parodies of being in a band, like Spinal Tap. That's a big influence. They're making fun of a rock band, but they write lyrics that are better than real rock bands.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

When the task is mocking pop culture, it's easy to make sarcastic comments and consider the job done. After a while, I began to feel like this route was completely pointless. Talking about silly, inconsequential stuff doesn't mean you can't put some effort into it.

Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.