Satirical Humor Quotes

The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

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 always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then there's plenty of - I don't know if it's the right word but - lampooning, but it's always at my expense.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.

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

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

Comedy is a noble art.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

I'm not sure about that role any longer. The role used to be to mix things up and I think to a great extent it still is, but the quality of the work of the political cartoon has been succeeded by the wisecrack, the gag cartoon, so that the cartoonist becomes more of the equivalent of the Jay Leno monologues, or David Letterman monologues.

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

I don't think a lot of people gave 'Beavis & Butt-Head' credit for how subtle it could be.

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

A clothing company is making T-shirts inspired by Bernie Sanders with messages like 'Feel the Bern.' They were gonna make them for Lincoln Chafee too, but no one wants to wear a shirt that says 'Feel the Chafee.'

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

Arnold Schwarzenegger got into a huge debate with Arianna Huffington about immigration - going back and forth - finally immigration came in and hauled them both away.

Humor is just truth, only faster!