Adam Yauch Quotes

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

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

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

We mock the things we are to be.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

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.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

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

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.