Tom DeLonge Quotes

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.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

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

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

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.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

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

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