Justin Theroux Quotes

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Caricature is rough truth.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

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.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.