Quotes About Satire

Wisdom of the Ages "Unsuccessful Town Slogans" Sequim (WA)- "We put the Dung in Dungeness.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

Reid interrupted. "What kind of jokes are we talking about?" We all looked at each other, not sure what to say. Reid tried again, looking at his notes. "It says here, 'Franken made jokes about the Holocaust.' What does that mean?" Diane handed our poll to Harry and pointed to the joke we had tested: "I think a bad Hanukkah gift for Anne Frank would have been a drum set."*

Geoffrey's bad enough but I'm glad I wasn't married to Jesus.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

The only thing that could improve golf is snipers.

The only thing that could improve golf is snipers. Then those guys wouldn't wear those stupid clothes, and it would sure as shit speed up the game.

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

And every year, Ronald McDonald takes the Pulitzer.

To treat the inhumane world with ridicule is to make it tolerable.