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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
- Jennifer Armintrout
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But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
- Jerry Zucker
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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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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.
- Isaac Hayes
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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
- Tom Lehrer
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If you're an activist trying to do something important, I salute you. Most of us just give ourselves ethical brownie points for watching Channel 2 instead of Channel 3, like characters in a broad dystopian satire.
- Frankie Boyle
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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
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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.
- Tim Crouch
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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.'
- Maurice Flanagan
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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
- Dario Fo
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
- Bassem Youssef
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
- Bassem Youssef
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I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
- Arlo Guthrie
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I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.
- Mike Yaconelli
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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.
- Charlie Brooker
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I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
- Jennifer Egan
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You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
- Michael Moore
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The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
- Dario Fo
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We are almost in a time beyond jokes, beyond satire. When the Trump era is called the 'post-truth' period, then this is the greatest joke of all, albeit quite depressing.
- Bill Bailey
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I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
- Henry Selick
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We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
- Stan Laurel
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How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
- Mel Smith
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
- Maajid Nawaz
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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.
- Bo Burnham
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I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
- Tracey Ullman
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Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.
- Sarah Cooper
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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.
- Larry Wilmore
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
- G. Willow Wilson
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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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Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.
- Ann Widdecombe
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What is satire if not a marriage of civil disobedience to a laugh track, a potent brew of derision and lack of respect that acts as a nettle sting on the thin skin of the humourless?
- Mona Eltahawy
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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Tom Lehrer
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A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.
- Chris Morris
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Satire doesn't effect change.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.
- Molly Ivins
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When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
- Molly Ivins
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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.
- Chevy Chase
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
- Voltaire
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Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
- Stephen Colbert
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Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.
- Rich Brian
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Satire is focused bitterness.
- Leo Rosten
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It is difficult not to write satire.
- Juvenal
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
- Theodor W. Adorno
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Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
- George S. Kaufman
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I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
- Molly Ivins
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Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
- Molly Ivins
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
- Molly Ivins
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
- Lord Byron
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
- Alexander Pope
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
- Art Buchwald
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