Will Forte Quotes

The Emmys are flat-out fun.

I'm most excited to meet Jon Hamm at the Emmys.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

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.

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

I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.”

In case you're wondering what we all do here during the commercial breaks, mostly we just sit around making catty remarks about the outfits you're all wearing at home.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

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.

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

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

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

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.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

You can make fun of everything.