Quotes About Satire

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you're with people with a sense of humor and can relate to it.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Most comics point out what everyone else is thinking but hadn't thought of verbalizing. I guess, in a way, that makes most comics seers. It just depends in what category - some choose to be the seers of relationships, some are seers of racial issues, and some are seers of political issues.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

BoJack Horseman' would make sense in the world of 'Rick and Morty,' but it's hard to imagine Rick and Morty in the world of BoJack.

I'm such a huge fan of all this material that I'm spoofing.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Great humorists are great insulters.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.

Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.