Audience Quote by Harold Ramis

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

— Lenny Bruce

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the…

— Geoff Dyer

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

— Justin Simien

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

— Gore Vidal

What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are…

— Justin Simien

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to…

— Shawn Levy

Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very…

— Harry Shearer

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their…

— Dick Van Dyke

With all the outlets, if you have a strong comedic voice, there's a venue to do your thing. It's a bit of a meritocracy,…

— Jonathan Krisel

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

— Mike Yaconelli

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed.…

— Carl Hiaasen

I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's like doing…

— Barry Levinson