Quotes About Satire

Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

an ugly hatchet man who considered Kmart velour sweatpants haute couture.

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?

I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One.

Chicago was started by a bunch of New Yorkers who said "Gee I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty but it just isn't cold enough."

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product [American cheese] after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face