Joseph O'Neill Quotes

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

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

I just wished Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn't have rescued them.

We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

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

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

Who is he?" "An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.