#satirist

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want. ↗

— Trey Parker

#because #central #comedy #comedy central #considered

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists. ↗

— Trey Parker

#especially #fact #just #like #network

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#calling #feel #himself #i #important

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. ↗

— Rich Little

#i #interested #kid #mannerisms #more

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

#critics #defer #feelings #finer #held

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!' ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#direct #examine #forget #hate #look

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#his #little #lives #nature #nothing

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#again #alive #another #back #brings

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#bottom #bottom line #interests #line #matter