Julie Brown Quotes

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

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.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

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

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

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

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

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.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

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

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

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

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 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.

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

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.

It is difficult not to write satire.