Quotes About Satire

I'm so sick of Betty White.

I have seen a billion rom-coms, but the majority I've been hate-watching on purpose, to laugh at them and not with them.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

I would die of pleasure if 'The Day Today' or 'Brass Eye' came back. Though there's something really special about the fact that they only did one series of each.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

I think Seth McFarlane is brilliant, and I think 'Family Guy' should get an Emmy for sure.

I'd love to do a really broad comedy at some point.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

That's life's big joke: we all end up looking like Mr. Burns.

Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk, and they become an authority figure.

Because I don't wear a suit, and have such a horrible boy band face, people assume that I'm not doing satirical material.