1. Satire provides commentary on important issues while keeping the heart happy. (Cameron Garcia)
2. I think that satire is humorous but it can also be serious at times or it can be serious and humorous at the same time.
3. it has a way of making things easier and lighter even though it still brings out the hardcore facts. its for me an antidote to all the bitterness and callousness to others feelings which usually bear up when pointing out a fact that would usually not be received kindly or light-heartedly. (Farouk Anderson)
4. Satire, I find, is the 'safest' way to contradict another person's statements/actions/beiefs. Your words, if you use satire, are seen as insulting, degrading, or uninformed, according to the other person. If you don't make it seem funny, you're gonna get sued, lose your job, or take a fist in the face, eventually, if you don't 'take it back'.Thst being said, It's tremendously important, and profoundly effective, in all areas of life. It gives us all 'release' from the combative stresses society has built around us all. It refreshes our minds, enabling us to re-focus our minds, sometimes to our original point of view, sometimes to another.Let's face it, we all love to laugh. (Vince Vernile)
5. Definition: the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical.
6. Satire is a lovely fire starter of sorts and a clever way to inform and challenge popular ideas. It's a potent device that casts such ideas in a different light and forces pause, reflection and even reconsideration. (Bryann Alexandros)
7. Satire opens peoples minds to ideas they might otherwise reject outright, using the emotional lever of humor. (Tony Kuphaldt)
8. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. (Jonathan Swift)
