Demetri Martin Quotes

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

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

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

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.

And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.

Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Final installment of Things More Fun Than Reading the Sarah Palin Memoir: Driving into a tree, microwaving your head, and getting stabbed in the eye with a carrot.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.