Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

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.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

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

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

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.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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.

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

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

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

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

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

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

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.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.