Miranda Raison Quotes

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

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

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

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

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

You can make fun of everything.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

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