Agnes Repplier Quotes

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

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.'

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Satire is focused bitterness.

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.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

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.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.