Laura Benanti Quotes

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

Comedians play off of social commentary.