“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
“I’ve written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.”
“The Irish and British, they love satire, it’s a large part of the culture.”
“Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.”
“A sitcom isn’t usually the right tool for satire.”
“Social satire has been around since people have been around.”
“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”
“I like to write a lot of satire.”
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
“It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that ‘Gangnam Style’ is satire.”
“I’ve never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.”
“’Charlie Hebdo’ had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too – but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism.”
“Satire is what closes on Saturday night.”
“I liked ‘Repo Man.’ Satire.”
“Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they’re too deliberate.”
“As ‘Possession’ progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.”
“Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.”
“But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.”
“If you’re going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can’t be politically correct when you do that.”
“I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.”
“’Veep’ is a great satire of democracy.”
“If you’re going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you’ve also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you’re going to have rioting in the streets.”
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
“Everybody should read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.”
“I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.”
“Satire is focused bitterness.”
“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
“Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.”
“How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.”
“You can’t debate satire. Either you get it or you don’t.”
“I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel – it’s vulgar.”
“Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.”
“When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel – it’s vulgar.”
“Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.”
“I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.”
“Satire doesn’t effect change.”
“A lot of French comedy is satire.”
“Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”
“Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.”
“Indonesian people don’t get satire; that’s the thing. There’s no thought in our humor.”
“Shelley Jackson’s ‘Half Life’ is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.”
“I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.”
“Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.”
“All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.”
“Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.”
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.”
“I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.”
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
“Hollywood is horrible… it’s beyond satire.”
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