Quotes About Irony

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

Great comedy is always sadistic.

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

I can be sarcastic.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

Talking about satire feels like death.

I don't buy the thing that you can't do satire in the age of Trump. You just have to be funny and figure out the angles.

I'm a 'Saturday Night Live' guy. I'm a comedy guy. As long as they're giving it to everyone, I don't care about how low they go, most of the time.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

most historical relationships are ironical in character, or, to put it differently, that the course of history has little to do with the intrinsic logic of ideas that served as causal factors in it

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Una de las ironías de las religiones en la Modernidad es que incluso hacen de lo absoluto una opción. Incluso aquellos que luchan por lograr la ortodoxia no escapan al imperativo herético, porque la verdadera creencia también depende de una elección (hairesis) a su favor.