Lynn Coady Quotes

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.

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

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

I like to write a lot of satire.

I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

I am a writer—a comic and satirical writer. I am much better at poking fun at politicians who screw up than I am of telling them what to do.

Mike Pence popped out of the womb furious that his mother had had sex.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

Being offended is, in itself, an unpleasant sensation, just like pain in your mouth is an unpleasant sensation, but if you have the right amount with the right amount of food, it actually makes the food taste good. So if you have just the right combination, people will laugh despite feeling like it's wrong.

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

I like to make fun of serious matters.

You can't just be crass without being witty. Angry crass is horrible.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.