Barack Obama Quotes

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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Jokes are grievances.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

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

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

You can make fun of everything.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.