A Quote by T. J. Miller

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

T. J. Miller

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T. J. Miller
American - Actor
Born: June 4, 1981

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

Kristin Gore

If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.

Jane Goodall

I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

Paul Beatty

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

Neal Shusterman

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

Larry Wilmore

When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she's actually just becoming me.

James Corden

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.

Louis Auchincloss

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

Gore Vidal

I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it.

Mike Yaconelli

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

Kristin Hunter

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

Bruce Catton

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Isaac Hayes

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

Isaac Hayes

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

Josh Widdicombe

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