Humor and Satire Quotes

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

I want people to know my political point of view. There's an appetite for that, almost an expectation. I also want to make people laugh, but I wouldn't want to do it at the expense of my point of view.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Puppets can get away with saying things that human beings can't. Because they are cartoonish just to look at, they're not real, you can assign them insane things to feel and vocalize.

One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the comic strips. It's a powerful way for young people to learn history.

There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do.