Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

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

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

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

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.'

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.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

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

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

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.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

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

Caricature is rough truth.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

I like to write a lot of satire.