Robin Williams Quotes

The only weapon I've got is comedy

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

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.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

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

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

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

Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Jokes are grievances.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

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

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.