Mort Walker Quotes

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

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.

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

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Everything can be satirized.

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.

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.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

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

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.

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.

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

You can make fun of everything.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.