Everything can be satirized.
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I've spent my entire career being a satirist.
It's all been satirized for your protection.
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
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.
It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
One has to view things realistically.
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.