I had amoebic dysentery once and it is horrible to try to kill. ...You have to take a nasty drug that causes all sorts of nasty side effects. And it stays in your system until you kill it.
The role of satire is to ridicule or criticize those vices in the society, which the writer considers a threat to civilization. The writer considers it his obligation to expose these vices for the betterment of humanity. Therefore, the function of satire is not to make others laugh at persons or ideas they make fun of.
Laughter is not an essential component of satire; 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.lthough satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.