Top Satire Quotes
A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
Chris Morris
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.
James Thurber
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.
Ben Nicholson
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.
Rob Corddry
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.
Mike Judge
George S. Kaufman 
Vladimir Nabokov 
Robin Williams 
Michael Flanders 
Mike Judge 
Alexander Pope 
Art Buchwald 
Voltaire 
Griffin Dunne 
Shia LaBeouf 
Molly Ivins 
Dario Fo All Satire Quotes
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.
David Zucker 
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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.
John Cusack
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Dawn Powell
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
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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.
Alan Lomax
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The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
Ben Nicholson
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Popular Satire Authors
VoltaireAlexander PopeLord ByronTheodor AdornoJonathan SwiftAnthony TrollopeJames ThurberEdward YoungVladimir NabokovShia LaBeoufAngela CarterMike JudgeRobin WilliamsRob CorddryJohn Cusack
Tracey UllmanDavid ZuckerCarroll O'ConnorLaurence HousmanBen NicholsonGriffin DunneLeo RostenLenny Bruce JuvenalDario Fo QuintilianArt BuchwaldMolly IvinsGeorge S. KaufmanDawn Powell
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