#satire

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

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

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

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. ↗

— Dario Fo

#enjoy #hard #humour #incorporate #power

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

— Lloyd Alexander

#comedy #comical #funny #humor #humorous

Social satire has been around since people have been around. ↗

— David Walliams

#been #people #satire #since #social

Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time! ↗

— Michel Templet

#politics #satire #change

There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by the existance of a royal family, by the volume of traffic that passed by their house, by the malice of trade unions, by the power of callous employers, by the refusal of the health service to take their condition seriously, by communism, by capitalism, by atheism, by anything, in fact, but their own futile, weak-minded failure to get a fucking grip. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#humor #satire #family

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives. ↗

— Brendan Jack

#empire #humor #humour #memoir #quote