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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

— Carl Hiaasen

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I like to write a lot of satire.

— Earl King

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

— Molly Ivins

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

— Kristin Gore

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

— Dario Fo

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

— Mike Judge

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.

— Graydon Carter

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

— T. J. Miller

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

— Herb Caen

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Kate Christensen

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.

— Lenny Bruce