Tim Minchin Quotes

It is difficult not to write satire.

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.

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

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.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

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

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

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.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

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

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

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

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.

I like to write a lot of satire.

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.