Quotes About Satire

I'm a big fan of saying the thing that is not necessarily sincere or earnest, but definitely honest.

I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

We're a comedy site and have made fun of every single race, religion, creed and gender. We've made fun of it equally.

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

Every time I see Trump on TV these days, I'm waiting for him to burst out, 'Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!' That would make sense to me - that this has all been one long 'Saturday Night Live' sketch.

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch comedy and satirical takedowns of the social hierarchies. At the same time, I was developing a love for movies at the height of the '90s New York indie movie explosion: everything from 'Rushmore' to Nicole Holofcener movies.

Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'

Ive become a parody of myself, as Im a big fan of a skinny cappuccino.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

You don't marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.