Rick Riordan Quotes

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

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

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

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

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

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

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.