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

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

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.