Quotes About Satire

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Humor is the truth wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

Leary and Haynes published a fanzine called Strange V.D., which featured the most horrendous medical photographs they could find accompained by captions describing fictitious diseases like "taco leg" and "pine cone butt.

While I love most, not to say all, of James Thurber's cartoons, there are a handful that seem especially

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My family is really a classy 'Simpsons.'