#satire

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny. ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #irreverent-humor

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#comedy #earliest #influence #mad #magazine

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. ↗

— David Zucker

#early #humor #i #i think #most

By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular school experience, like dating and friendship. Not to mention that traditional school can be dangerous. I’ve heard about kids catching the flu and chicken pox, even Judaism. And how about those poor kids lugging all those heavy books to and from school every day? My books never went anywhere, just like me. I felt so bad when I’d see kids on my street giggling and chasing each other around with those awkward backpacks. ↗

— Colin Nissan

#homeschooling #humor #satire #dating

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#boxing #gloves #got #i #person

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#anything #away #freedom #gives #jealous

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. ↗

— John Cusack

#correct #criticism #get #going #into

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. ↗

— Cintra Wilson

#politics #satire #economy

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#comedy #comical #funny #humor #humorous

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

#die #eulogy #lies #literary #literary men