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Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.
I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.
Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.
You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.
Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.
I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.
'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
For me, 'Gulabo Sitabo' is a satire... I wanted to do satire and I think it's turned out exactly how I wanted it to be.
Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.
I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.
Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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.
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
Kaizad Gustad is quite crazy, and he has weird ideas, and 'Boom' is one such idea. It's a crazy film by a crazy guy. It's almost a satire, a black comedy.
Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.
Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.
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.
I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.
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.
Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.