Quotes About Satire

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.

Humor is the politeness of despair.

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

You look like Donald Trump being sprayed with mace." "That's the poo-poo face. I

Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops.

The genres were Romance in Michelet, Comedy in Ranke, Tragedy in Tocqueville, and Satire in Burckhardt.

Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha)

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

I love deliberately badly written books.

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.

I always wrote risque comedy and crude comedy.

I was still working at Google when I wrote the blog post '10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings.' I was scared to share it at first because I didn't want my coworkers to think that I was making fun of them - which I totally was. But then afterward I had people coming up to me like, 'I have a meeting trick! Put my meeting trick in your next post!'

I grew up in Nagpur, and I first started enjoying the author Harishankar Parsai. He wrote mostly satire, essays on the current situation and social issues. He wrote many books and I think he was my first influence.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.

Yeah, I started with 'The Onion,' that was my first job out of college.

Yeah, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek. You know, Five Finger Death Punch doing 'Mama Said Knock You Out.' It was just really funny for us.

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'