"I'm not trying to make satire," he clarifies.
"He's put his life on the line, literally, to make satire, and that takes a lot of psyching up".
You could make satire out of her, but once you knew her you didn't want to.
Like much of the show, the scene is written with shrewd attention to the details that make satire work.
But if it was Dick's gift to find, again and again, these extended hyperbolic parallels, it was his genius to take them to a level of earnest madness that makes satire touch the edge of the sublime.
As James Poniewozik, the television critic for the Times, wrote, "How do you spoof a candidate who treats campaigning like a roast?" In addition, the increasing deluge of topical quips and one-liners that fill social media can make satire seem less like an island of sanity in the sewer system of American political discourse and more like just another crap-filled pipeline.
The thing that makes satire work is that it contains an element of truth or believability.
But it also has enough cinematic weirdness to make satire redundant.
"If you were making a satire of Hollywood, you would have the anti-Semitic, drunk, racist, misogynistic movie director making the Judah Maccabee biopic," The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg said to me by phone from Washington, D.C. "It's an act of outrageous chutzpah for an anti-Semite to appropriate a Jewish hero for a movie.
Whether he's making musical satires with Feed Me, or creating soundtracks to teen action films with Juicy J, Kill the Noise, the man with the morbid moniker, is leading a bass music uprising through his musical camaraderies.
