Daniel Tosh Quotes

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

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

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

It is difficult not to write satire.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

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.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

I like when people wear a WWJD bracelet, because it's like an example of the first thing Jesus wouldn't do, probably.

It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.