Patricia Briggs Quotes

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

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.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

You can make fun of everything.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

I look at people, and I like to laugh at them.

I am a walking joke.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

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