Quotes About Satire

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

Yet malice never was his aim;He lash'd the vice but spar'd the name.No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant.His satire points at no defectBut what all mortals may correct;For he abhorr'd that senseless tribeWho call it humor when they gibe.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

For conversation well endu'd;She calls it witty to be rude;And, placing raillery in railing,Will tell aloud your greatest failing.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

Si toutes les filles étaient nymphomanes, disait-il, la vie sur terre serait plus drôle.

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.

I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once.

Fuck you very much, the FCC. Fuck you very much for fining me. Five thousand bucks a fuck, So I'm really out of luck. That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me.

Not baked goods! BAKED BADS!!!!" --The Tick

clerihew: Fuchs Looks Like an ascetic Theoretic

Hypocrisy as humor pushes destruction of standards.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

Comics are just mirrors. People can either laugh at the reflection or be disgusted by it.

I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it's strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters.

A lot of the 'Portlandia' characters and a lot of the moments aren't really TV-worthy, but that's what is so refreshing about seeing them.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.