Quotes About Satire

I wanna be funny, but if I have a chance to make a point while being funny - why not?

If we're going to objectify women, why not objectify men? Not that I'm saying that it's right. It's not right on either front. You can't look at it and take it so seriously.You have to laugh about it.

I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open.

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we'd look back on the double whammy of 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' as the golden age of TV's singeing singing satire.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

The mark of a really great satire is its ability to seem prophetic, and I think that the television culture that film predicted really came true in the age of reality television and is a testament to how great it really is.

Trying to put someone in prison for making a fart joke seemed far more likely to produce more courtroom laughter, more sensational acquittals, and a lot more fart jokes.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

Do you know any princes who are looking for a tart to marry?

One layer off from the deepest is a cartoon.

Q: What is a Soviet trio? A: A quartet returning from an overseas tour. —1970s underground Soviet humor