Gary Bettman Quotes

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

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.

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.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

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

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

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

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

A simple caricature, a simple sketch - that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But if you draw up a caricature... if you associate that subject with the things you're not supposed to, then, of course, you can't expect that to be acceptable.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

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.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

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.