Quotes About Satire

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

All men are pigs and I hope they die and monkeys take over, then things would be way better.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if pretty soon I start wearing ripped-up fishnet stockings and dyeing my hair black. Maybe I'll even start smoking and get my ears double-pierced or something. And then they'll make a TV movie about me and call it Royal Scandal. It will show me going up to Prince William and saying,'Who's the most popular young royal now, huh, punk?' and then headbutting him or something.

Republicans are easy to make fun of.

In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994, it's legally required that I take at least one improv class in my life.

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it can only be silly things. But I think part of what makes a comedy is that at least part of the mantra of the show is trying to make people laugh.

I worked in the Bush campaign, and some of us would darkly joke, "Anybody can become president when you get more votes. To lose by half a million and become president takes professionals." It seemed funny at the time. Less so now.

Now that psychiatrists are defrocked weekly in New Yorker cartoons, it's difficult to recall what this once meant, how seriously men like him were taken.

This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?

Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'.