Douglas Adams Quotes

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

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

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Jokes are grievances.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.

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.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

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

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.