Quotes About Satire

The maimings of love are endlessly funny.

Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have to be intelligent to get it. Like the Marx brothers. I love it.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

New Rule: Colin Firth has to admit that he's not a human being but a robot designed by women as the perfect man. He's handsome, charming, witty, he's got that accent and a gay best friend...the only way he could be any better is if he ejaculated Häagen-Dazs.

I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself.

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.

definition of sarcasm is "a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound

Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?

It's a funny world, Hobbes. True. But it's not a hilarious world.…unless you like sick humour. The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here.

The fly lands on the swatter. The movie runs backwards and catches fire in the projector. This species apes us well by talking only about itself

For I, too, am a serious student of cartoons.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

On CBS, Stephen Colbert joked darkly, "It's just like D-Day. Remember D-Day, two sides, Allies and the Nazis? There was a lot of violence on both sides. Ruined a beautiful beach. And it could have been a golf course.

No one is ever going to die from broccoli flu or spinach flu, and tofu will never become to-flu.

Yet, Malice never was his Aim; He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent, Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct... Verses on the death of Dr Swift

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

See, vodka, that's drinking. Beer—well, beer is just getting the inside of your mouth wet.

Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.

You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a solemn oath.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.