Richard Steele Quotes

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

True wit never made us laugh.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.