Quotes About Satire

comic cynicism

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

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a 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.

which plays like porn dubbed by bitter deconstructionist theoreticians.

There is a certain kind of humor that rises below vulgarity. It isn't merely in the worst possible taste; it aspires to be in the worst possible taste.

it is a melancholy truth that the behaviour of many among us might serve as the severest satire upon the [human] species. It has been a compound of inconsistency, falsehood, cowardice, selfishness and dissimulation.

In Venice, Grant let slip a remark that would provide fodder for many satirists: he told a young woman what a fine city it would be if only the canals were drained. Henry Adams adduced this as damning evidence of Grant's philistine nature, but he may only have meant that the canals should be cleansed of sewage.

the Irish seven-course meal is a six pack and a potato

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Excerpt from Kenneth Brown testimony] Great comics throughout literature have always disguised by comedy, through laughter, through jokes, an underlying theme which is very serious, and perhaps needs laughter because it is also painful...

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

New Maxi-Pad Pets. Accessories for your period. Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

I was reading Punch or The London Charivari, an English magazine of art and comedy. The pictures showed many kinds of people. The ugliest and most comical ae Scots, Irish, foreign, poor, servants, rich folk who have been poor until very recently, small men, old unmarried women and Socialists. The Socialists are the ugliest, very dirty and hairy with weak chins, and seem to spend their time grumbling to other people at street corners.