Quotes about Satire

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Daneeka agreed.

At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.