Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.
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.
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show. " This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.
Satire is born of the cities it denounces.