Quotes About Satire

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That's kind of my taste.

So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

What's funny is funny. It doesn't matter what expense it's at. There are people who don't like that and I understand.

I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

I have no real enemies in comedy, but there are a couple of people who I'd laugh about if I heard that their legs had fallen off.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.

'Ted Lasso' is still funny and it still points fingers and holds truth to power. But it does it in a way that feels like it's a net gain rather than somebody losing out.

I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

I've been making fun of administrations since I was a teenager onstage.

I love Facebook. I could brush my teeth with Facebook.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever.

I've had my own comedy series on telly and I know the truth about politics.

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When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. If not, as Yeats warned, "...the centre can not hold.