Quotes About Satire

I perceive I will die confected in the very stench of farts

Rondeau En chiant l'autre hier senti La gabelle qu'à mon cul dois; L'odeur fut autre que cuidois: J'en fus du tout empuanti O si quelqu'un eût consenti M'amener une qu'attendois En chiant! Car je lui eusse assimenti Son trou d'urine à mon lourdois; Cependant eût avec ses doigts, Mon trou de merde garanti, En chiant!

I have no notion of what he's talking about. I have to lie and say, I do. He says, You do know he was perhaps the greatest satirist in English literature. I thought he was Irish.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

The poodle bites ; The poodle chews it.

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Non esiste l'inferno. Esiste la Francia

One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.

A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.

There's so many shows, whether it's 'Last Week Tonight' or 'The Daily Show' or 'Full Frontal' or 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' that are really doing great stuff talking about what's going on in the world and what's going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

America has gone from the Obama Years to the Trump Years, like going from the 'West Wing' to a sitcom where the incidental music involves a tuba.

Comedy should be fluid. It should be both Left and Right wing.

I should have conceived the idea for 'The Mighty Walzer' earlier. A boy who dreamed of winning fame, fortune, and the adoration of beautiful women as a table-tennis player - shame on me for taking so long to see the mock-heroic possibilities in that.

We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

I plan someday to do a one-man show based solely on the e-mails of Bellamy Young. And people will think I've written a brilliant comedy myself when, in fact, all the text will be directly from Bellamy.

I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.