Quotes About Satire

I like intelligent comedies.

Appointments' is largely just derived from pieces of dialogue with another person, and then also what's going on inside of my own mind, or a person's own mind. They're intended to be a little bit exaggerated and a satire of things that we're not sure are entirely true, or maybe biased.

I like some of the B movies that are intentionally funny.

I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

One of the greatest was the blonde, urbane Ina Claire, who seemed a Dorothy Parker story or New Yorker cartoon come to life.

Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.

Artichoke is a real dish for the poor..; it's the only one that, when you have finished eating, you have more in your plate than when you started. (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)

taking the piss?

Oddly, Leon Stover, in Robert A. Heinlein, one of the best close readers in other ways, comes away with the idea that Heinlein 'defends the traditional ethics of Christian civilisation' (p. 61) which is a hard argument to make given the amount of out-of-wedlock sex in his work and the satirisation of so much Christian practice in Stranger in a Strange Land and Job.

If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses

La historia no se repite, pero a veces se parodia a sí misma

Is it about a bicycle?

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure.

Favorite animal: steak.

I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ...

May the fire of St. Anthony fly up thy fundament.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

QUÉ IRONÍA, ¿NO?

The Catholic Church, with the mental traumas it induced through repression and guilt, became a prime candidate for lampooning.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

We are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage.

Bobby Henderson