Elements Quote by Harry Elfont

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

— Chris Morris

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at…

— Harold Ramis

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability.…

— Rob Corddry

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was…

— Stan Laurel

I'm so glad that talented writers and everybody who produces shows are being meeting with such success - it gives me more hope for…

— Mark Fiore

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going…

— Mort Walker

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

— Kevin Kline

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a…

— Hedda Hopper

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

— Dawn Powell

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind…

— Jonathan Swift

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

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