Quotes about Satire
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
— Will Rogers
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
— Mark Twain
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
— Will Rogers
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.
— Stephen Malkmus
Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Fake news executives are nicer than real news executives, though real news executives are funnier than fake news executives. They dont know theyre being funny.
— Stephen Colbert
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
— Mark Twain
My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.
— Roseanne Barr
the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera
— Michael Wolff
Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.
— Muhammad Ali