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There's a lot of humor and satire in that one.

Katherine Hough

This has a lot of satire in it.

Katherine Hough

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

Mary Worley Montagu

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Imogene Coca

I think it was intended as satire.

Dinesh D'Souza

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Art Buchwald

I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them. It was a satire.

Dinesh D'Souza

This had now become a huge political story. In a secular Western society, a prime minister and a newspaper had to issue an apology for exercising their right to satire.

Roger Koppel

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Quintilian

I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Lord Byron

It was clear to me that reality was catching up with satire so fast that somebody might read this essay on how to have the December 31 baby and obey it.

Josh Freed

It's a satire!

Marc Cherry

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Chris Morris

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Bill Mauldin

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Alan Lomax

We have a tradition of satire in Denmark. We do the same with the royal family, politicians, anyone. In a modern secular society, nobody can impose their religious taboos in the public domain.

Flemming Rose

This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.

Philippe Val

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

George S. Kaufman

The music is great and it's a great political satire.

Joy Allain

I think the reason that satire is on the rise is because the real news is so bad right now, ... I'd love it if we lived in a world where there was nothing to satire, but given this world, people need satire and comedy right now. ... [Humor] enables us to look at the horrible things going on and survive [them].

Andy Borowitz

(It's) intended as a piece of political satire, no more no less, and I hope that it will make people laugh and dance, and then think a little, that's all.

George Michael

This isn't the best time for America laughing at ourselves. I think political satire thrives much more at a time when we're in a mood to laugh at ourselves. The degree of political correctness has just gotten terrible.

Norman Lear

We got turned down by a couple of other high schools who didn't necessarily want us to film a movie that had anything to do with drugs there. We tried to explain it was a satire that was anti-drug, but it was no good.

Ryan Hunter

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Lord Melbourne

It's meant to be satire, farce.

Tory Dobrin

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

Paul Krassner

Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it.

Ben Elton