Dramatic Quote by Stan Laurel

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

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the…

— Rachel Parris

Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple…

— Corbin Bernsen

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and…

— Mort Crim

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

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

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor…

— Molly Ivins

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

I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's…

— Natasia Demetriou

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You…

— Farah Khan

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do…

— Maajid Nawaz

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

— Phyllis Diller