Quotes About Satire

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

Part fairy tale, part fool's errand, part science-fiction, part utopian satire, Photios's epitome suggests it could have been one of the more fascinating of the ancient novels.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Comedy should always evolve; it's so easy to punch down.

There's something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that's really important.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.

You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

I don't want to push barriers myself. You go to see Joan Rivers to see barriers being pushed. You watch 'Little Britain' to see barriers being pushed.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

Satire is focused bitterness.

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of the day, I trust in my abilities to make comedy and create art, with or without Donald Trump.