Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
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Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
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 focused bitterness.
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
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.
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 of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.
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