Quotes about Satire
If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.
- Ricky Gervais
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
- Mark Twain
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
- El-P
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
- Mark Twain
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
- Alice Walker
Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.
- Elias Canetti
I have shot for a political satire by Anubhav Sinha called 'Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai.'
- Shriya Pilgaonkar
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
- Peter Mullan
Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.
- Joseph Heller
At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.
- Joseph Heller
I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.
- El-P
When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.
- Tina Fey