Rachel Caine Quotes

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

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.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

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

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

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

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

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.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.