Difficult Quote by Howard Jacobson

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

— Gore Vidal

I don't buy the thing that you can't do satire in the age of Trump. You just have to be funny and figure out…

— Jesse Armstrong

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

— Bassem Youssef

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

There's a guy on YouTube ... who just re-voices Donald Trump. He does a thing called Sassy Trump which is just to take Donald…

— Armando Iannucci

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

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

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves;…

— Moliere

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said…

— Tony Hendra

I, for one, can't wait for this election to be over, because the curse of Donald Trump in a satirical comedy way is that,…

— Jordan Klepper

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Mike Yaconelli