John Stewart says of satire, “The real outcome of satire is typically catharsis and whether that’s positive or negative I don’t know. The difference between a satirist and a demagogue is we’re observers, we don’t have the confidence to take the next step.” The satirist lives somewhere between Mount Hope and the cliche tar pits of culture always trying not to get too high to fall too low. The mechanism they use to get back and forth, whether a pen, a guitar or newsrooms determine the type of satire.