"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire"
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The ellipsis matters. “Hollywood is horrible...” is the setup you expect to be followed by a punchline, a winking exaggeration. Instead, he swerves into “beyond satire,” claiming the usual tools of critique no longer work. Satire depends on a gap between how institutions present themselves and how they actually operate. Serious implies that gap has collapsed: the hypocrisy is already a genre, the excess already a brand, the moral compromises already pre-sold as “how the business works.” When reality performs its own caricature, the satirist’s scalpel turns blunt.
There’s also a defense mechanism embedded in the line. “Beyond satire” can read as exhaustion: the sense that ironic distance, once a way to survive and speak truth, has been commodified into a studio-approved tone. Hollywood doesn’t just tolerate mockery; it repackages it, turning critique into content and dissent into marketing copy. Serious is basically saying: the machine has learned to laugh at itself without changing, and that’s the bleakest joke of all.
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"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/hollywood-is-horrible-its-beyond-satire-156979/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.




