The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.