Margaret Deland Quotes

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Humor is hostility.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

Comedy is allied to justice.

Comedians in general make their living calling liars on their lies.

One horselaugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

Enough jokes on me. We need to do more jokes on all of them. I thought this was a press dinner where I get to make fun of the press.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.