Bill Maher Quotes

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.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

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

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

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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

Jokes are grievances.

Everything can be satirized.

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

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.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

It is difficult not to write satire.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.