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en When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
  Bill Mauldin

en I think the reason that satire is on the rise is because the real news is so bad right now, ... I'd love it if we lived in a world where there was nothing to satire, but given this world, people need satire and comedy right now. ... [Humor] enables us to look at the horrible things going on and survive [them].

en I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my hand,

en SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent.

Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. --Barney Stims
  Ambrose Bierce

en I mean, picture this: You're in the middle of reading a very important article in The New Yorker, and then you're laughing because you got distracted by a cartoon, and you have to go to the bathroom because of all the laughing ... come on people, please keep the humor at a minimum. A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. I mean, picture this: You're in the middle of reading a very important article in The New Yorker, and then you're laughing because you got distracted by a cartoon, and you have to go to the bathroom because of all the laughing ... come on people, please keep the humor at a minimum.

en There's a lot of humor and satire in that one.

en It's satire – it's my own twisted sense of humor, The Wizard of Oz.

en I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

en I was grinning and laughing on 14 and my caddie asked me why, and I wouldn't tell him. I just felt I couldn't go wrong and that feeling is such a good feeling. I wish I could have that every day. All of a sudden today, everything seemed to go in.

en People aren't even aware of their own behavior. Maybe they'll finally realize if they see it in print.

en I think grandmothers are more open, even more than mothers sometimes, to the goodness in children. We aren't always trying to push the children to do 'what's best' for them. They aren't being allowed to be children. What I think we should change is our perception of children.

en It's not mean-spirited humor, it's just good satire. I go in with my eyes open that they will do whatever they can to make fun of me. But I hope people see I'm human and a decent guy.

en Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
  Langston Hughes

en It's full of depressing details about the children's lives, ... and, I'm sorry to say, it's the longest in the series. So in terms of total misery, it's quite a lot to deal with well, both in terms of the number of pages and the amount of misery per page.

en That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
  A. Whitney Brown


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