Accepting Quote by Hedda Hopper

In a satire, you need foolishness.

— Shoojit Sircar

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

— Frank Zappa

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

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

— Gore Vidal

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'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

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow…

— Graydon Carter

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

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

— Frank Moore Colby

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

— Larry Wilmore

I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of…

— Jesse Armstrong

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