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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.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Satire is focused bitterness.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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.

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.

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

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.