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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, 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.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

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 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.