Political Satire Quotes

• 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

  Religious, Racist, World

  "Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'", www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2006.

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

  Tracey Ullman

  Political, Satire, Surface

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• Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Tom Lehrer

  Political, Henry Kissinger, Satire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Oliver

  Knives, Political, World

  "From our own correspondent". Interview with Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2007.

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• I do suppose what any political satire, what any political joke can count as a gaffe or a possible career-ending move. It changes what counts. I don’t know, I do feel like day to day even though Trump is so terrible and ridiculous, day to day we still laugh at Jason Chaffetz and we still laugh at Ted Cruz and we still laugh at those guys, at just how bad they are at their jobs.

  Timothy Simons

  Moving, Laughing, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

  David Zucker

  Business, Smart, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just think everyone knows you go on those [political satire] shows if you're a politician to, "humanize yourself" - to show, "Hey, I can take a joke." Well, why should satire be in the service of humanizing these people who are supposed to be the target of our venom and vitriol? I think that's unseemly.

  Harry Shearer

  Thinking, People, Political

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• You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

  Tommy Smothers

  Dirty, Political, Atheism

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• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Artist, Political

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

  Al Franken

  Book, Political, Important

  "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

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• I love Starship Troopers. That's really smart. I think he really could portray fascism in a comedic way. It's funny because both José [Padilha] and [Paul] Verhoeven were accused of being fascists for their movies because they had fascist leads. So, it's not going to have his tone, but there's going to be political satire in it.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Smart, Thinking, Political

  Source: collider.com

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• The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.

  David Selbourne

  Cutting, Political, Literature

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