Quotes About Satire

but nothing serious happened until July 28, 1942, when Jones went into the studio to record an amusing anti-Nazi war ditty, Der Fuehrer's Face. Originally intended for the Walt Disney cartoon, Donald Duck in Axis Land, this became in Jones's hands a musical riot, rocketing the group to national stardom in less than a month. It demolished Hitler's claims to genetic superiority and established the raspberry as a respectable part of American radio.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.I thought so once; but now I know it.

we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh...

And then Ginny jumping in with, "So Donald Trump and Sarah Palin are both drowning in the pool right in front of you, and you know there's only going to be a minute or two before one or both of them goes under. Here's the question: What kind of sandwich do you make?

So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?

Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.

it was through a process of repeated blasphemy that Christians and Jews evolved and grew into modernity. That is what art did. That is what science did. And yes, that is what irreverent satire did. The

He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.

Every field piece I did on 'The Daily Show' was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have - in this case, a real person - into said part.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.