“Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.”
― Alexander Pope
“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
“The Irish and British, they love satire, it’s a large part of the culture.”
― Ben Nicholson
“Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.”
― Carroll O’Connor
“A sitcom isn’t usually the right tool for satire.”
― Chris Morris
“Social satire has been around since people have been around.”
― David Walliams
“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
“I like to write a lot of satire.”
― Earl King
“Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.”
― Edward Young
“It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that ‘Gangnam Style’ is satire.”
― Evan Osnos
“I’ve never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.”
― Geoff Dyer
“’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
“Satire is what closes on Saturday night.”
― George S. Kaufman
“I liked ‘Repo Man.’ Satire.”
― Harry Dean Stanton
“Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they’re too deliberate.”
― Herb Caen
“As ‘Possession’ progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.”
― Jay Parini
“Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.”
― Jennifer Armintrout
“But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.”
― Jerry Zucker
“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
“I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.”
― John Cusack
“’Veep’ is a great satire of democracy.”
― Jon Lovett
“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
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”
― Jonathan Swift
“It is difficult not to write satire.”
― Juvenal
“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.”
― Kalki Koechlin
“I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.”
― Kristin Gore
“Satire is focused bitterness.”
― Leo Rosten
“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
― Lord Byron
“Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.”
― Maajid Nawaz
“How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.”
― Mel Smith
“You can’t debate satire. Either you get it or you don’t.”
― Michael Moore
“I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel – it’s vulgar.”
― Molly Ivins
“Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.”
― Molly Ivins
“When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel – it’s vulgar.”
― Molly Ivins
“Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.”
― Molly Ivins
“I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.”
― Nile Rodgers
“Satire doesn’t effect change.”
― P. J. O’Rourke
“A lot of French comedy is satire.”
― Pamela Druckerman
“Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”
― Quintilian
“Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.”
― Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“Indonesian people don’t get satire; that’s the thing. There’s no thought in our humor.”
― Rich Brian
“Shelley Jackson’s ‘Half Life’ is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman.”
― Stacey D’Erasmo
“I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.”
― Stephen Gaghan
“Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.”
― T. J. Miller
“All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.”
― Theodor W. Adorno
“Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.”
― Tom Lehrer
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.”
― Tom Lehrer
“I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.”
― Tracey Ullman
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
― Voltaire
“Hollywood is horrible… it’s beyond satire.”
― Yahoo Serious
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