George Meredith Quotes

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

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

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Everything can be satirized.

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 thing that makes any sense.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

It is difficult not to write satire.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

I like to write a lot of satire.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

In a satire, you need foolishness.