Colman Domingo Quotes

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I like to write a lot of satire.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

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

It is difficult not to write satire.

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.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

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

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.