Alison Jackson 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.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

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.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

We make fun of our leaders.

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.

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

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

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

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

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

You can make fun of everything.