Peter De Vries Quotes

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

You can make fun of everything.

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

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.

I like to write a lot of satire.

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

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

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