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Quotes About Satire

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
~ Sid Caesar
What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car
~ Simone Elkeles
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. Swarm over, Death!
~ Sir John Betjeman
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
~ Sir Walter Besant
He led his regiment from behind—He found it less exciting.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries.And every joke that's possible has long ago been made.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
~ Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
the ironic point of view is sometimes the only legitimate way to interpret the reality we live in.
~ Siri Hustvedt
His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.
~ Henny Youngman
I'm a double bagger. Not only does my husband put a bag over my face when we're making love, but he also puts a bag over his head in case mine falls off.
~ Joan Rivers
I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.
~ Alton Brown
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
~ Ben Nicholson
There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.
~ George Carlin
[Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.
~ Ilana Glazer
I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
~ Robert Wyatt
Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.
~ William Cowper
I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.
~ Matthew McGrory
I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy.
~ Michael Dorn
I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.
~ Michelle Rodriguez
I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"
~ Denis Leary
My job is to express who I am and what I hate about the country and what I love about it and what I hate about myself and what I love about myself and to make you laugh while I'm doing it.
~ Jim Norton
I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.
~ Victoria Chang
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~ Max Barry
If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.
~ Maya Angelou