Satire Quotes

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Satire doesn't effect change.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

Satire is focused bitterness.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

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

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.