I think the people who say we need satire often mean, "We need satire of them, not of us." - Tom Lehrer

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

I'd like to take you now, on wings of song as it were, and try and help you forget for a while your drab, wretched lives.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted. The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.