Sebastian Horsley Quotes

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

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.

I’m not certain you’d know the right sort of man for you if he arrived on our doorstep riding an elephant.” “I would think the elephant would be a fairly good indication that I ought to look elsewhere.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

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

Satire is focused bitterness.

Everything can be satirized.

I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.

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

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

It is difficult not to write satire.

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

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.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

I like to write a lot of satire.

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

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.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

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

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.