Biting Humor Quotes

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

What do sharks do on Monday mornings? They get up and start biting. That's me.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.