Irving Howe Quotes

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.