Mike Judge

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

American Producer

Paul G. Tremblay

Crime, horror, and satire each aim to reveal an ugly or uncomfortable truth: one that, after the reveal, will ensure we'll never be the same. The big difference between those genres being the effect they create.

American Author

T. J. Miller

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

American Actor

Isaac Hayes

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

American Musician

Adolph Green

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

American Playwright

Kevin Kline

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

Stephen Gaghan

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

American Director

Shoojit Sircar

Gulabo Sitabo' is a simple satire on life. It's a genre I have tried for the first time.

Indian Director

Laura Benanti

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

American Actress

John Oliver

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

British Comedian

Satire is humorous but aims to highlight flaws or issues, often encouraging thought or change.

Humor with Purpose

Understanding satire needs recognizing it's not just for laughter but also for critique or protest.

Not Just Funny

Satire often includes cultural or political references that target audiences will recognize.

Cultural References

Satire can exist in many forms such as literature, cartoons, films, or even social media posts.

Multiple Forms

Satire uses laughter as a tool to criticize and show the absurdity of the subject targeted.

Critical Laughter

Sometimes satire is mistaken for genuine content if the mocking tone is missed or misunderstood.

Not Always Obvious

 with liberals more likely than conservatives to appreciate things like abstract art or even stories that lack a clear ending. In my experimental work, I've also found that these differences help explain why ironic, political satire is more likely to be appreciated

The psychological traits...

 The novel was a bleak satire of a classic island adventure story, a popular genre where young boys get shipwrecked in exotic locations. The protagonists in these stories are able to master nature while evading the dangers posed by their new environments.

Why should you read...

 trading letters with their delightfully wicked friend Jane. But this unique brand of tongue-in-cheek humor is just one of the many feats found in her sly satires of society, civility, and sweeping romance. Written in the early nineteenth century,

The wicked wit of Jane...

 greatest pantomime clowns ever how the clowns get involved in the circuit well now we got to go to France where Napoleon I was a social commentary and satire on the one place he didn't do it with in the circus so English pantomime

This Clown Philosopher...

 in terms of our own self-interest, we finally begin to grasp our ability to respond, our responsibility to the rest of the world. Now as to what I mean by the best comedy and satire, I mean work that comes first and foremost

Chris Bliss: Comedy is...

 his fingerprints are visible upon comic techniques everywhere, from slapstick to double acts to impersonations to political satire. Through the praise of free speech and the celebration of ordinary heroes,

Why is Aristophanes...

 and it's expensive. But we need human beings to look at the content and context of a deepfake to figure out if it is a harmful impersonation or instead, if it's valuable satire, art or education.

How deepfakes undermine...

 of our time. Showing that the emperors have no clothes, that's the task of satire, right? Speaking truth to power. This has always been the historical role of political cartooning.

A free world needs...

 The bards sang of the brave deeds of their ancestors and praised the accomplishments of warrior kings— and composed biting satires about cowardly or selfish leaders.

The rise and fall of the...

 gentle satire can you stand it um okay I have my aunt Bonnie lives in Seattle Washington and she spent like thirty five years as an inner-city low-income