Review http://www.reelviews.net/movies/r/robin_tights.html of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).
Two-and-a-half star reviews
“Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.”
Interview with Nabokov http://lib.ru/NABOKOW/Inter06.txt_with-big-pictures.html conducted on September 25, 27, 28, 29, 1966, at Montreux, Switzerland and published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967.
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“It is difficult not to write satire.”
Difficile est saturam non scribere.
I, line 30.
Satires, Satire I

“I think the people who say we need satire often mean, "We need satire of them, not of us."”
AV Club interview (2000)

Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), II. On Difference of Character

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“Tomorrow is a satire on today,
And shows its weakness.”
This is a quotation from "The Old Man's Relapse", a poem addressed to Edward Young, but written by Lord Melcombe.
Misattributed

“A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.”
Preface to the Fables.
Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700)