Jeph Loeb Quotes

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

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

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

You can make fun of everything.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Enough jokes on me. We need to do more jokes on all of them. I thought this was a press dinner where I get to make fun of the press.

Cartoons are ridicule and satire by definition. A negative attitude is the nature of the art.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.