Jon Glaser Quotes

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

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

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.

Everything can be satirized.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

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

Caricature is rough truth.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I like to write a lot of satire.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

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.'

It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday Night Live' making fun of your song.'

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.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.