that's not calling robocop satire....that's just saying they needed a lil humor to break the serious tone/flow of the movie, which robocop had....but it wasnt satire....starship troopers, yes...robocop, no....
He's done it before breh that was the best i could find. Trust me its out there if you look
I feel your movies, especially “RoboCop” and “Starship Troopers,” had something to say, whereas the sequels could be dumb.
Yeah. That’s what I felt, yeah. And it came out of the movie in an organic way — what it meant. The layers that were there — especially with the most political movie, “Starship Troopers.” It’s never that we thought, We’re going to do a representation of the United States as a metaphor. On the other hand, many elements of the movie came from American life ... it was all based on things that were vaguely there in American life. Especially in Texas and stuff like that ... but we never set out to do that. We needed something to put our point of view also there, you know? We don’t think this is so great in anyway, this kind of, “let’s go to war, let’s kill.”
Paul Verhoeven, 'Tricked' Director, On The 'RoboCop' And 'Total Recall' Remakes | The Huffington Post
The screenplay had been offered to (and been rejected by) virtually every big director in Hollywood before Paul Verhoeven got hold of it. He threw it away after reading the first pages, convinced it was just a dumb action movie. However, his wife read it all the way through and convinced him that the story was layered with many satirical and allegorical elements, after which Verhoeven finally decided to direct the film.
RoboCop (1987) - Trivia - IMDb
then of course there are the reviews at the time that pointed it out
RoboCop Movie Review & Film Summary (1987) | Roger Ebert