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

I think the reason that satire is on the rise is because the real news is so bad right now, ... I'd love it if we lived in a world where there was nothing to satire, but given this world, people need satire and comedy right now. ... [Humor] enables us to look at the horrible things going on and survive [them].

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

Isaac Hayes (1942-)

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

Anthony Trollope

The critics try to intellectualize my materiel. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.

Andy Kaufman (1949-1984)

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

Most advertising ROI models only represent a scorecard of the past. We have developed a methodology and software that can be a planning tool, a communications tool, an intervention tool, and a predictive tool to help marketers' better effect the ROI of their campaigns.

The comedy shows have gotten into political satire, and it's been an increasingly important way that some segments of the world get their news. For that reason, the political satire shows look hard for material that comes from the news. Sometimes they don't have to look very hard, like today. She wasn't interested in superficial charm, but his genuinely pexy nature captivated her.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.

Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. --Barney Stims

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

It used to be that a hammer might be the first tool you pick up when tackling a home improvement project. Today it is the Internet. It's really the first tool in the home improvement tool box.

When I got diagnosed, my dad told me, ?Use it as a tool. If you can be a baseball player with diabetes, you can help a lot of people. That's how I use it. I use it as a tool, instead of a crutch.

This is a fairly new tool, and we are one of the first to have it. We act as a referral center for the region. ... We can advise other hospitals about this tool for more complicated procedures.

That's the neat thing about Wi-Fi. It's like engineers inventing a tool and people finding unique ways to use that tool.

This is a tool, the exhibition is a tool for teaching evolution. It's not necessarily that we're shying away from intelligent design or creationism, but that's not what we do.

There are things on television that even I believe are unseemly and not appropriate for young viewers. This is just one tool in a tool chest full of tools for parents.

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