Pierce Brosnan Quotes

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

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

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

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

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.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

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

Parody is homage gone sour.

It's funny to be a critic.

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

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.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

It is difficult not to write satire.

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.