Being me Quote by Mark Fiore

The mark of a really great satire is its ability to seem prophetic, and I think that the television culture that film predicted really…

— Justin Simien

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 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

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

Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can't really fake it. If you say,…

— Wanda Sykes

For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television…

— Jim Gaffigan

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

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

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

— Herb Caen

What's great is that a lot of us are playing so against type in this, and it's awesome. All of the writers put faith…

— Laura Prepon

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

— Chris Morris