Tom Lehrer

All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder._x000D_ _x000D_ For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder._x000D_ _x000D_ When correctly viewed, everything is lewd._x000D_ _x000D_ I could tell you things about Peter Pan_x000D_ _x000D_ and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'