But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

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.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

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

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.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

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

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.