Satire is focused bitterness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
I like to write a lot of satire.
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.