A Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

P. J. O'Rourke

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P. J. O'Rourke
American - Comedian
Born: November 14, 1947

From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had grown up as a feature writer, and basically my career had been in The National Lampoon and as a magazine editor, and I'd never been a reporter.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

Kato Kaelin

The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans.

Yoweri Museveni

Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.

Nicholas Rodger

I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.

Andrea Fay Friedman

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

John Warnock

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

Robert Anton Wilson

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

Christopher Moore

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

Ricky Van Veen

Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.

Quentin Crisp

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Hermann Broch

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.

George Washington

I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance in the game, which is more than can be said of tennis.