Quotes About Satire

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Reality, as frightening as it is, is very very funny.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

They don't realize that burlesque for centuries has been a legitimate branch of show business. I'll admit it's the lowest branch, but that's the limb nearest the people.

There were really only two men I knew who ever got a laugh out of paying their income taxes. One was cheating the government and getting away with it. The other had a sick sense of humor and would probably have set up a concession stand at the Boston Tea Party and sold sugar cubes and lemon slices.

God created man, but I could do better.

You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog." COURTESY VIOLATION—RESPONSE MUTED—VIOLATION LOGGED.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.—Groucho Marx

Nejsem z reality zrovna na vÄ›tvi, ale je to poÃ…â"¢ád jediné místo, kde dostanete sluÅ¡né jídlo. (Groucho Marx)

You could shove it up your ass and pretend you're a corn dog.

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Some of the finest comedies have chosen the Church as its subject and would indeed make most Christians laugh, give or take the occasional wince as a barb goes home. I have very fond memories of 'Our Man at St Marks' and long for the day when it is released on DVD but I won't hold my breath.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.

Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'