Lord Byron Quotes

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

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

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 used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

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

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

Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.

Everything can be satirized.

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

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.

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

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Parody is homage gone sour.

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.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

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.