Jess Row Quotes

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

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

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

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.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

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

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

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.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

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

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Caricature is rough truth.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.