Eugene Simon Quotes

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

We make fun of our leaders.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

You can make fun of everything.

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

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Parody is homage gone sour.

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 do situations and make fun of authority and life.

It's funny to be a critic.

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.

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

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

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

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

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.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.

Caricature is rough truth.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.