Quotes about Satire

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun.

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

A great name for a new country song: If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out of Jail by Now.

Oh my God, they killed Kenny!

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.