Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

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

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

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

I love irony.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

The key is that you never check the championship. You always carry it on. So when you're going through TSA, it's always a treat because, for some reason, they always like to pull it out and hold it way above their head and throw it over their shoulder and put it across their waist, see what it looks like on them.

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

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

I like to laugh at dark things.

The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.

I've got a sick sense of humour, a dark sense of humour. I do care about things and care about people but there's another side to me.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.