I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don’t have to push it! – Tom Wolfe
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective. – T. J. Miller
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. – Theodor Adorno
There is a satire that exists in ‘My Arm,’ but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I’ve raided from visual art. – Tim Crouch
Shelley Jackson’s ‘Half Life’ is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman. – Stacey D’Erasmo
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. ‘Can Helen Stop Smoking’ was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit. – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don’t know. You have to reel it in to drama. – Stephen Gaghan
I’m a satirist, so I’ve got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I’m not an assassin. If that ever happens, it’s only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. – Stephen Colbert
Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don’t know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it’s so easily misinterpreted. – T. J. Miller
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive. – Stan Laurel