T. J. Miller Quotes

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 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.

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

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

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

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for 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, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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.

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

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

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

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

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

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