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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 Adorno
" A lot of French comedy is satire. "
Pamela Druckerman
" 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
" A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire. "
Chris Morris
" But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine. "
Jerry Zucker
" 'Charlie Hebdo' had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too - but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism. "
George Packer
" Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. "
G. Willow Wilson
" Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. "
Carroll O'Connor
" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "
T. J. Miller
" Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame. "
Pamela Druckerman
" Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. "
Lord Byron
" Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire. "
Yahoo Serious
" How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire. "
Mel Smith
" I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. "
Stephen Gaghan
" 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. "
Kristin Gore
" I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing. "
Garry Trudeau
" 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. "
Jon Stewart
" 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. "
Carl Hiaasen
" I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it! "
Tom Wolfe
" I like to write a lot of satire. "
Earl King
" I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing. "
Kristin Gore
" 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
" I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire. "
Christopher Priest
" I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. "
Tracey Ullman
" I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar. "
Molly Ivins
" I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them! "
Mort Walker
" I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it. "
Mike Yaconelli
" It is difficult not to write satire. "
Juvenal
" It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control. "
Dario Fo
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