Tom Green Quotes

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

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.

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

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

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

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?

A lot of French comedy is satire.

There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

The president is always made fun of.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

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.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.