Quotes About Satire

Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.

The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is too much.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

When asked by an English poet who was at the table to read the ancient couplet Discite grammatici cur mascula nomina cunnus/ Et cur femineum mentula nomen habet -Teach us, grammarians, why vagina (cunnus) is a masculine noun/ And why penis (mentula) is feminine –Giacomo answered it with a witty pentameter of his own invention: Disce quod a domino nomina servus habet -It is because the slave always takes the name of his master.

How many of you ever started dating someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality anymore.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted.

How I Would Like to Kill My Brother, Version Sixteen By Olivia Bevelstoke No. really, what was the point? She could hardly top Version Fifteen, which had featured both vivisection and wild boar.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.

I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like 'Desperate Cheeto.'

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.