Dario Fo Quotes

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Everything can be satirized.

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

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I like to write a lot of satire.

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

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

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As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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

Satire is focused bitterness.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Jokes are grievances.

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

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

I see parody as another form of comedy.

You can make fun of everything.