Quotes About Satire

I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

I have managed to make the Capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against Capitalism.

for instance, he would say that god had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night

Lo que importa no es la antigua sátira sobre el fatuo trovador Ion sino el profundo malestar que hay en la Teoría política y en El arte de gobernar de Platón con respecto a la música, la fuerza anárquica que trastoca la razón humana y el autodominio de la psique.

Je me souviens d'un fromage qui s'appelait la Vache sérieuse ( la Vache qui rit lui a fait un procès et l'a gagné).

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out of the bully's tires.

I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!'

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

I don't want to take up space with another avocado toast.