Quotes About Satire

All forms of comedy are terrifying.

Sabes cuál es el nombre contemporáneo de la perversidad? Se llama democracia. Si un chimpancé con un tambor llega a ser popular y gracioso, podría ser elegido presidente.

Like he was trying to make it the Four Seasons of kidnapping situations.

Going beyond sarcasm straight to out-and-out insult is delicious, like wriggling out of a pair of Spanx.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Donald Trump announced that he is not running for president. He would rather spend his time making Gary Busey sell Snapple on the street.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.

My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots?

He can only express his feelings through parody.

En la civilización del espectáculo, el intelectual sólo interesa si sigue el juego de moda y se vuelve un bufón.

Would you like to become my wife? Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.

If Joan Rivers had gone to the electric chair instead of Ethel Rosenberg, this is the book she would have written.