Dave Barry Quotes

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Humor is hostility.

One of the jobs of a stand-up comedienne is to expose hypocrisy.