Satire Quotes

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

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.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.