Satirist Quotes - Page 3

• Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

  Bassem Youssef

  People, Roles, Limits

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

  Al Franken

  Ideas, Years, Support

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• Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Differences, Minnesotans

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Knowing, Bravery, Satire

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

  Al Franken

  Careers

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2003.

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• Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Eras, Impossible, Life Is

  Source: mrbellersneighborhood.com

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• A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

  Mort Sahl

  Jobs, Government, Blood

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• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, Hate, Roles

  "Sunshine satirist" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2004.

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• When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Action, Censure

  Charlotte Lennox (1752). “The Female Quixote, Or, The Adventures of Arabella: In Two Volumes”, p.163

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• But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.

  Joan Rivers

  Party, Humor, Night

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

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• I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

  Mo Rocca

  Self, Special, Important

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• There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

  Trey Parker

  People, Topics, Facts

  Interview with Jeff Onto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

  Marisha Pessl

  Home, Views, World

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin

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