Quotes about Satire

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein Because he hates America he loves mistresses and he wears a beret. He is French people.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

The late Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical American author, wrote: "For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the beatitudes. But—often with tears in their eyes—they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the beatitudes, be posted anywhere.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.