Quotes About Sarcasm

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

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.

Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British - I'm pasty white as well.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

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

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

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.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

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

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

Votever hyu say, meester "I'm so schmot I don't gotta make sense.

I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.

I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver

Nietzsche's subtle, poetic, and entirely unsystemic attacks on academic style and thinking were predestined to be quoted out of context, and his pithy and often sarcastic observations could be put in the service of a wider assault on rationality itself.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.