T. J. Miller Quotes

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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.

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

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

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.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!