Quotes About Satire

If you're making a satirical show and you're aiming to change something, I'd say you're on a fool's errand.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

Humor is very important as people have forgotten to laugh at themselves these days. They should not lose the funny bones.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

As long as Fox News continues to exist, you've got comedy.

I've got more chins than a San Francisco phonebook.

That's the whole thing: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I never make fun of the French.

There is something fantastically post-modern about David Frost.

We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.

There's nothing funnier to me than reading people analyze 'David Pumpkins.'

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians.

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.