Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The mark of a really great satire is its ability to seem prophetic, and I think that the television culture that film… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“Carrying a plate on which she'd placed a sandwich made with burlap bread, she looked over my shoulder.” — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got… — Paul Horner Copy Share Image
“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...his knees were held together by the skin-tight trousers, which consequently narrowed the aperture through which great quantities of malodorous, rancid dreck… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
“They always loved my sense of humor. There used to be a light switch inside one of the nurseries that was a… — Chase Brooks Copy Share Image
Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“From Olsen's Nation: "Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear… — Randy Quarles Copy Share Image
