Atheism Quote by Tommy Smothers

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

— Tracey Ullman

Politics is a thing that is kind of the same over and over and over again. But we have to find new ways of…

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

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

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is…

— Umberto Eco

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

— Robin Williams

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only…

— Ben Nicholson

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

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it…

— George Michael

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into,…

— Jon Stewart

Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative…

— Tom Tomorrow