Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
Kissinger was surely one of the very few statesmen to try to do something positive to break the log jam of the Cold War; to try to end the war in Vietnam; to bring a halt to the cycle of war in the Middle East.
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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.