#satire

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. ↗

— Robin Williams

#dead #house #living #people #people say

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#beliefs #ends #intolerance #place #religious

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#beliefs #ends #intolerance #others #place

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while. ↗

— Christopher Brookmyre

#death #ennui #satire #suburbs #death

It is difficult not to write satire. ↗

— Juvenal

#satire #write

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness. ↗

— Herman Koch

#satire

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. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#create #crew #digitally #famous #general

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#allow #enough #give #plus #public

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again! ↗

— Michael Flanders

#back #been #comforting #half #i

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ↗

— James Thurber

#clear #comedy #done #edge #famous