Aristophanes Quotes

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

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

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 love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

…aspiration for justice often finds itself the captive of ideologies which hide or pervert its meaning …

What does it matter if an individual is shattered - if only justice is resurrected?

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

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

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.

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.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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