Don Rickles Quotes

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

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.

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.

Everything can be satirized.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

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.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

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

I like to write a lot of satire.

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

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.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

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

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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