Joan Rivers Quotes

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

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

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

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

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.