Quotes About Satire

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.

I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republicans on who, I guess, were unclear about what Stewart was up to, and while Jon Stewart was being nice, he was building a case for drowning them.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner.

Bush is a frat boy in the White House but we've had that before. But I wasn't one of those people that was threatening to leave the country. By the way none of those people have left the country. Alec Baldwin is still here.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

We have this joke in England that half the people want me to be prime minister, and the other half want me shot.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

Even conservative columnists tend to prefer humor that isn't fit to print.

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.

I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

'Newton' is a black comedy, a social satire. Amit Masurkar is directing the movie, and Drishyam films is producing. Rajkummar Rao is in the movie. I am playing a very important character. It is a very interesting project.