Quotes About Satire

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that's their sense of humour.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I love that you can confront it with humour and with satire.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

Some people don't seem to be able to distinguish between humour and what you really feel. They forget that there's a difference between what's real and what's a fantasy or joke.

Except Baby Jesus never had a delicious honey-roast glaze, did he? So in many ways my ham was a lot better than Baby Jesus ever was,' pointed out the Pirate Captain.

If I had a dick, I would fuck this peanut butter

We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.

I blamed the whole mess on Charles Dickens.

As long as any group within the society deliberately maintains its identity it is, or should be, a fair target for satire—both for its own good and for the society's.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore.

You have a sense of humour. I am in favor of jokes. They have political value. Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent.

If 'Sajjan Singh Rangroot' showed seriousness through the First World War, 'Carry On Jatta 2' had a great dose of comedy.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

If the worst thing happening to Middle Eastern people is that Carlos Mencia is doing a joke about them being stopped at airports, that's a pretty awesome state of affairs.

Basically, my mum and dad bought me a CD player for my 14th birthday. They didn't really listen to music at all, but my dad had a couple of tapes that he'd listen to, like Tom Lehrer. My dad was a physicist and Tom Lehrer was like this really weird Harvard class professor, who was really cool because he was also a satirist and pianist.

Tom Brady should be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and that heartbeat should be mine.

I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.