Trey Parker Quotes

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

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.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

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

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

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.'

Let's just let funny people be funny.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive, I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.