George Mikes Quotes

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like, 'Oh, it's a cartoon.' There's mixed media. It's funny, and there's stop-motion. But as an adult, you figure it out, how the entire underpinnings of their comedy was poking fun at the rank and file of the British aristocracy and the monarchy.

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.

I'm not big on fat jokes. That's a little beneath me. I'm not a huge fan of making a joke completely at someone else's expense. Even though I think he does it better than anyone else, I don't love... Well, it's different with Sacha Baron Cohen, but that whole thing where you're "punking" people? I don't like that. I don't like doing it, and I don't particularly find it funny when the joke is on a person who doesn't know they're being set up.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.

Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

Cake and tea or death?

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.