Jermaine Fowler Quotes

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

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

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.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

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

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

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Caricature is rough truth.

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.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

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