Satire Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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 focused bitterness.

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.

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.

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.