Quotes About Satire

'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

I loved 'The Simpsons' because it didn't talk down to its audience.

Clearly when there is a character based on you on 'South Park' or 'The Simpsons,' that is something that sticks with you for the rest of your career. But I'm fine with that.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

I'll tell you what 'The Simpsons' is really good at. They'll describe something, you don't see it, and it's funnier when you describe it.

'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you're paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

I've never seen 'The Simpsons.'

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.