Quotes About Satire

To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.

Certainly, forties science fiction can be seen as a reaction to or against the vision of a single man, John W. Campbell; in the fifties, H L Gold, Fred Phol, Anthony Boucher and a few others began to solicit stories and propound a science fiction of satire and doom, and in the sixties, Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison, by pressuring for and proclaiming a literature of catastrophe, got a great deal of it.

One of the clearest ways to evaluate the common beliefs of a society is to consider the satires that arise within it. Satire makes fun of standard assumptions, perspectives, views, and beliefs.

When the irreverent satirists began to mock the new Bolshevik regime, however, Latvian Riflemen in the audience shot up the premises and began to chase Bim and Bom. The audience laughed, assuming it was part of the act. The clowns would be arrested.

Smoking's good for you," said Nightingale. "It's packed with vitamins and minerals and has zero calories and fat." He gestured at the stairs. "It's exercise that's bad for you. Look what it's doing to me.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

comedy has to tell the truth.

John Cleese once said that when they started Monty Python, they thought that comedy was the silly bits: "We used to think that comedy was watching someone do something silly . . . we came to realize that comedy was watching somebody watch somebody do something silly." That's the basis of the tool of Straight Line/Wavy Line.

Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

No, no, I could never be a woman. I'd just stay at home and play with my breasts all day.

And now Dr. Phil's latest book, Here's Some More Advice I Pulled Out of My Ass. —David Letterman

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.

Voltaire's Candide who asserts that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, We don't serve colored people here. I said, That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken."14

Beginning in the 17th century, technological advances in publishing and transportation created a Republic of Letters and a Reading Revolution in which the seeds of the Humanitarian Revolution took root (chapter 4). More people read books, including fiction that led them to inhabit the minds of other people, and satire that led them to question their society's norms.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.