Norah Jones Quotes

I like Colbert because he's funny, and he's cool. He knows how to have fun and doesn't stick his nose up to Fox.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

It's like, 'Twilight' was voted the worst movie of all time, and I'm like,'Can I please have the worst movie of all time? Please? Half of that?'

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

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

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

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.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

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

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I just think Vogue is the most exceptional mother - and I'm not just saying that because she can hear me.

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.

I know, for some people, 2016 was entirely miserable. And I'm like, 'Does it have to end?' Because over here in the Liefeld corner, it's been phenomenal.

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.