David Spade Quotes

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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.

I like to write a lot of satire.

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

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

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

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.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

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.

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

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

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

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

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