Ilka Chase Quotes

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

You are a daft race. Begone!

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves his esteem and respect.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

We make fun of our leaders.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

I've been called worse things by better people.

Ridicule is more powerful than any argument.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule

Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for 'winning the Kentucky Derby!' The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: 'Stay classy!'

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.