Quotes About Ridicule

Baby boomer media like 'The Times' is a laughingstock, and we should do whatever we can to ridicule it.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

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

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children.

Hyperbolic rodomantade of the most puerile type.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Look at the way things are now. Just a set of crab in barrel and all of a sudden one crab just appear with a jacket and tie and telling everybody that he is not a crab any more. Ridiculous little place with ridiculous little people.

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.

You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent... - Yossarian

You can laugh at Christianity. You can mock and ridicule it. But it works. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions—Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held in the now, either an urgent now or an eternal now.

Gabriel knew that he had let himself in for a certain amount of ridicule when he decided to allow himself to be worshiped. In the end he decided that the precedent of actually forbidding a religion was more distasteful than being plagued by the devout.