Quotes About Satire

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

Es bleibt doch endlich nach wie vor Mit ihren hunderttausend Possen Die Welt ein einzig großer Tor

An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.

Romney sounds like he wants to be the nice uncle in a sitcom, Santorum sounds like he wants to be a twelfth-century archbishop, Gingrich sounds like he wants to go to outer space, and Paul sounds like he came from there.

Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts of his novels without impairing his status as a writer. But we could not remove Mrs. Gamp or Pecksniff or Bounderby without maiming him irreparably.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

How to defend yourself against a banana

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.

But he began to lampoon the rise of Hitler, and soon his life was entangled in global politics. He was playing an engagement in Stockholm when the Nazis invaded Denmark in April 1940, and, believing himself to be on Hitler's "extermination list," he escaped to New York with his wife. He arrived in the United States with no personal belongings and ignorant of American customs and speech.

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

Since I am a fake one; despite that, I want Twitter should verify the Fakeness with a blue tick, as a genuine fake. Can I qualify if I also create my fake website to prove precisely that?