Keith Olbermann Quotes

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

Everything can be satirized.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Parody is homage gone sour.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

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

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.