#satire

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#anything #away #freedom #gives #jealous

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for. ↗

— Cintra Wilson

#politics #satire #economy

Social satire has been around since people have been around. ↗

— David Walliams

#been #people #satire #since #social

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness. ↗

— Edward Young

#shows #today #tomorrow #weakness

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

— Chris Morris

#satire #sitcom #tool #usually

Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#because #better #better place #boiling #comes

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#appeal #begun #form #great #had

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. ↗

— John Cusack

#george #great #i #like #movies

Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and ensnared you with long-term payment plans. Join the Rat Race "just for a while." Concentrate on your career "just for a while." Move in with your girlfriend "just for a while." Find a bigger place, out in the burbs "just for a while." Lie down in that wooden box "just for a while. ↗

— Christopher Brookmyre

#death #ennui #satire #suburbs #death

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#lesson #parody #satire