Quotes About Satire

Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

Though 'Child's Play' is ultimately more concerned with subverting storytelling expectations and satirizing the expected trajectory of traditional mystery, Posadas does embed some insights about the writer's responsibility to the reader.

Next its gonna be jump off a cliff day.

Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.

Gary Larson: The funniest cartoonist I've ever seen. His two-volume set (The Complete Far Side) should be the textbook in any course taught on how to be funny on the comics page.

In memory of the esteemed Frederick Crocus, who's not dead yet, but will be one day.

Having a syndicated comic strip is a great platform for ripping on expressions you hate.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.