Chris Morris Quotes

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

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

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

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

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

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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

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.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

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