Quotes About Satire

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

I always used to joke that I'm the Tipper Gore of television.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

Chris Guest movies are funny.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

There are many terms that have been used to describe me: man, comedian, disappointment, hammock enthusiast.

She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

If she got tired of the writer, she could probably marry a short, heavyset man on the middle rungs of private equity.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

I, myself, have killed six people. All random, all undetected, no way to trace them to me. And, let me tell you, there's nothin' like it. It's a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you're thinking. 'Aw, he's a comedian. He's just sayin' that stuff.' Good. That's exactly what I want you to think.

Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.

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