Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.
I don__ think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It__ not even preaching to the converted; it__ titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, __e need satire of them, not of us._ I__ fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the _30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.
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I don__ think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It__ not even preaching to the converted; it__ titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, __e need satire of them, not of us._ I__ fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the _30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.
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