Paul Neilan Quotes

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

You can make fun of everything.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

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

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

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Parody is homage gone sour.

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.

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

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

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.