Joseph Addison Quotes

I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.

Comedy now is all about body shaming and delivering vulgar dialogues. There can't be another Manorama.

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

If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.

For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted it to be.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.