Quotes About Satire

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?

He felt to me increasingly like the parody of a love interest.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

The real work of destruction had been done long before by satire, libel and rumour; Marie Antoinette had become dehumanized. The actual assault by a body of people inspiring each other with their bloodthirsty frenzy was the culmination of the process, not the start of it.

A comedian is perhaps the only person who is admired as well as paid handsomely for speaking out the truth honestly in his profession by the people.

A girlfriend is called a CRUSH of a boy because after marriage that woman is only going to crush to make juice of that man.

Comedy is about making mockery of the hypocrisy of the society.

Donkeys and asses having four legs are actually intelligent, but those with two legs are only duffers.

Look around anywhere, here or there, the comedy is being done by the people in abundance everywhere.

There are more jokes in the media news than in the comedy shows.

There can be no dearth of comedy as long as the people are engaged in a lot of hypocrisy around the world.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

Comedy is allied to justice.

Comedy is, as we have said, an imitation of characters of a lower type--not, however, in the full sense of the word bad, the ludicrous being merely a subdivision of the ugly.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

Fake breasts: Women always say, "You know they're not real, don't you? She bought them." Do you know I don't care if they're real? I want to buy some, too. For the house, put them in different rooms. And on the dashboard of the car, for when I'm driving.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

I grew up on 'Monty Python.'

I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too.

Monty Python has such a huge following... myself included.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

When everyone was listening to pop music I was listening to Monty Python records.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.