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It is difficult not to write satire.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

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.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Satire is focused bitterness.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

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.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.