Bill Maher Quotes

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

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot help but laugh.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

Cartoons are ridicule and satire by definition. A negative attitude is the nature of the art.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

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

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.

We make fun of our leaders.

It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.

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

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.