Satirist Quotations

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

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.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.