Top Satire Quotes
A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
Chris Morris
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
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
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
Leo Rosten 
John Cusack 
Art Buchwald 
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I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
Tracey Ullman 
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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.
Griffin Dunne
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Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
Carroll O'Connor
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins
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