Editing Satire (section)

==Humour==
{{rquote|right|The rules of satire are such that it must do more than make you laugh. No matter how amusing it is, it doesn't count unless you find yourself wincing a little even as you chuckle.<ref name="galaxy196806">{{Cite magazine|date=June 1968|title=Forecast|magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction|pages=113}}</ref>}}

[[Laughter]] is not an essential component of satire;<ref>{{Citation|title=The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin|last1=Birberick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ikGt9gkXv74C&pg=PA175|year=2002|last2=Ganim|publisher=Rodopi |isbn=90-420-1449-0 |language=en}}</ref> in fact, there are types of satire that are not meant to be "funny" at all. Conversely, not all humour, even on such topics as politics, religion or art is necessarily "satirical", even when it uses the satirical tools of irony, parody, and [[burlesque]].

Even light-hearted satire has a serious "after-taste": the organizers of the [[Ig Nobel Prize]] describe this as "first make people laugh, and then make them think".<ref>{{Citation|url=http://improbable.com/ig/|title=Improbable|date=July 5, 2004|contribution=Ig|access-date=February 20, 2012|archive-date=June 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604012502/http://improbable.com/ig/|url-status=dead}}</ref>