Alan King Quotes

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

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

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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 is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

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.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

Satire is tragedy plus time.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

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.