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Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

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.

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, "Oh, what a funny Onion headline!" And then the editor of The Onion is like, "Huh. I guess you won't be needing me anymore.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

The biggest problem I had with starring in Scrubs were the black doctors. I just had to keep telling myself this show was satire.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

Added to the crazy legends was a collection of essays called: “Gazpacho for My Mother: Tales of Tritesza and Sorrow,” in which Fergus declared and adored the hair-raising fits of anguish, sadness and self-absorption he experienced as a Hispanic person of mostly non-Hispanic origin.

A delightfully droll look at how the other half lives from a pet pooch's point of view.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.

After Jesus showed up, the Old Testament basically became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up. Of course, just because Jesus replaces the Old Testament doesn't mean that you should necessarily skip it. That would be like skipping Batman and Robin just because the story starts over in Batman Begins. The important thing to realize is that both the old and new stories are about an all-powerful being trying to rid the world of evildoers, only in the new one The Batman can eat pork.

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they never were exposed.

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.

An avalanche is just a snowflake that got pissed off.

And evolution wasn't even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS .....Jan Marshall

A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own deserving jokes.

Ah, dear Reader, is there a married man living who hasn’t purged his drawers and closets of premarital memorabilia, only to have one more incriminating relic from yester-life rear its lovely head? Kristy contends that old flames never die, not completely. They smolder for years in hidden places. They flare up again just when you think you’re over them. They can burn you if you don’t deal with them. Such is the price I’ve had to pay for not rooting out the evidence of my life B.C. (Before Contentment). Or, perhaps, for having planted it too well. But that, you see, is no longer an issue. Shall I tell you the crux of this argument? A man with a past can be forgiven. A man without one cannot be trusted. If there were no pictures in my drawer for Kirsty to uncover, I would have had to produce some.

A Harvey Nicks chick with throwaway morals and a trustfund appetite.

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [Love's Last Shift]