Sara Pascoe Quotes

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Caricature is rough truth.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

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, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

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

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Satire is focused bitterness.

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

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.