Quotes About Satire

The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it. It's been like watching Mesut Ozil drop perfect crosses on to the head of an increasingly frustrated Stephen Hawking.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Your balls, Mr. Darcy?" He reached out and closed her hand around them, and offered, "They belong to you, Miss Bennet.

Fuck the Yanks And drink their wives My mind is clear The sky is bright I'm happy as a horse's shite Up came the Bottle of Smoke

This just bleeds with irony.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

The initials of the Communist Party in the 1930s, VKP, were read by peasant wits to stand for "Second serfdom" (Vtoroe Krepostnoe Pravo), while in the reading of some Leningrad youths the initials of the USSR itself—SSSR [CCCP] in Russian—became "Stalin's death will save Russia" (Smert' Stalina Spaset Rossiiu).

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.

I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that I was a total fraud because I was a television writer.

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

If the future historians were to digitally unearth our generation, they would decipher the facial expressions on the "Selfie's" as the generation of people suffering from wide spread constipation!

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

Funny Times is the best little cartoon monthly out there (Interview with Washington City Paper)

Illustration is to cartooning as prison sodomy is to pansexual orgy.

if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism. That

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

A quick way to improve food-related fuel economy would be to buy a quart of motor oil and drink it.