| 单词 | satirist |
| 例句 | Tragedy turned him into one of the subtlest and sharpest satirists in American letters. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z At one point, I threw out Jonathan Swift just to watch the collective coronary they had at the thought of an Irish political satirist. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As a satirist and activist, Guzzanti is almost the only person in the Italian media with the courage to attack Berlusconi directly. Peter Bradshaw's Cannes round-up 2010-05-16T21:05:00Z Photograph: Rex/Getty Frankie Boyle is back in the headlines, after accusing UK satirists of being too cosy with the establishment. Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z Mirroring the image political satirists paint of Hollande, the play shows the presidential character as incapable of controlling the two warring women who throw insults at each other. President’s personal life plays out on French stage 2013-02-24T01:35:43Z She called him "one of our greatest satirists and a brilliant writer." Comic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85 2013-06-06T18:01:04Z But I think the job of the satirist is the same as it was from Mark Twain to Will Rogers to today. Not all comedians are tickled by Trump: He’s “in the news and that’s our job, but personally, to me? It’s nothing but scary” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z America's best-known political satirists — Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver — gamely rose to the occasion, calling out Trump's falsehoods and dissecting his unreal universe night after night. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z That makes it hard for opponents, or even satirists, to land a square blow. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z But in an age of political neutralism and spin it feels harder for satirists to poke their critical fingers so effectively. Political theatre lacks the Commons touch 2010-10-19T11:04:00Z But then Plato wanted no place in his republic for artists – and that probably included satirists too. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z The bile in a satirist’s mind must be balanced with hope, or the whole enterprise is doomed. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z While almost every panel on CNN, for example, includes a Trump apologist in an effort to present multiple viewpoints, the satirists champion reason and logic. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Salem was a satirist calling the Arab world to reconciliation, rather than what he termed “a mental state of war.” Ali Salem’s Journey 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Pleasure's Progress goes deep into the dark underbelly of 18th-century England as Tuckett pays homage to the English painter, printmaker and satirist William Hogarth. This week's new dance 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z It may be that the Nobel was never worthy of this iconoclastic satirist, wily cultural historian, sublime fictive ranter, comic tragedian, outraged citizen, contradictory wit, epic insulter and monumental imaginer. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “The Problem” teams up the satirist Stewart with the advocate Stewart. Review: How Do You Solve ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Later that year, the satirist Stephen Colbert made a speech of his own on “The Daily Show.” Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Comedians, writers, satirists and a cartoonist gathered Thursday night at Hollywood's Upright Citizens Brigade to discuss censorship and satire in the wake of the killings at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. Comedians and cartoonist gather to discuss satire and censorship 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Early in his career, Reinhardt worked as a graphic designer and political satirist. | Art Spiegelman on the Varied Craft of Ad Reinhardt 2013-12-10T22:40:02Z Abroad he is known as an author, but Garrison Keillor, the gentle giant of American satirists, is a radio man at heart. In praise of … Garrison Keillor at 70 2012-08-06T21:07:38Z “If you’re any sort of social satirist, you need to study social customs,” he said. What is Paul Rudnick Doing Writing Young Adult Fiction? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z This imaginative five-movement work, inspired by texts by the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, is billed as a “meditation on virtuosity, freak shows, entertainment, spectacle, business and the sacrifices one makes to survive in the world.” Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In his relentless spoofing of the unholy relationship between art and commerce, he is, in his own words, "a social satirist." 'Con Artist': Entertaining portrait of an art-world satirist and near-pariah 2011-03-24T22:23:15Z A healthy fear of that shirtless autocrat riding horseback is ingrained into that culture, but that two-dimensional figure has nothing on Ukraine's satirist. "Servant of the People" is an example of a politician living up to the promise he plays out on TV 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z He was also an art critic, a novelist, a political writer and a satirist, though much of this was known only long after his death. Diderot Was Way Ahead of His Time — and He Knew It 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z There's little irony in Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or the writers of the Onion, who are, I want to tell you, the superior satirists of the moment: angry, incredulous, engaged. Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In a slashing, cartoon expressionist style, Mr. Lewis conjures the mordant spirits of social satirists like James Ensor and George Grosz. NADA Art Fair Offers the Wacky and the Political, Plus Basketball 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Bair expects there may be particular interest in the collection now, as comedians and satirists are once again at the forefront of political commentary. Art Buchwald’s archives are bound for the Library of Congress. He would have been thrilled. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Here, finally, is that rare satirist who doesn’t feel outstripped by the actual details of today’s culture. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Many of Yankovic’s songs feature this style of oddball narrative; he is not always, or even principally, a social satirist. Weird Al Yankovic Endures 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Some of Mr. Boulez’s less-predictable repertory choices included works by Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss and some orchestral music by the rock musician and satirist Frank Zappa. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z I love musicals, and this one is particularly good as it was written by the great cartoonist, poet and satirist Salah Jaheen. The 10 best Arab films 2013-07-06T15:00:00Z Saturday Night Live is what Roman satirists were in the ancient world. ‘Vanguard of opposition’: SNL adds Spicer to satire’s resurgence under Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Iyer, himself a philosophy professor in England, is a deeply elegiac satirist. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z An impish satirist in the Mad comic-book tradition, he had only to add heart to the recipe to produce The Artist. The OSS 117 Films: Michel Hazanavicius' Warmup for The Artist 2012-02-17T17:45:28Z I don’t consider myself a political comic as much as a social commentator or a satirist, if you will. Q&A with Lewis Black: Hating Facebook, learning to yell from his 102-year-old mother and why he’s tired of being the grown-up 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Stewart, in contrast, was arguably the most important political satirist in U.S. history. Trevor Noah gives Fox News a free pass: The new “Daily Show” could be great for Ailes and Hannity, bad for America 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Elsewhere describing his own novels, or many of them, as “comedies of wide reading,” Bellow here insists that by a very considerable margin “most novels have been written by ironists, satirists and comedians.” ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Even at the time, Alger’s stories were controversial; they were mocked by social critics and parodied by satirists. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Though the author is listed as Patrick Dennis, who happens to be the protagonist, it was actually penned by Edward Everett Tanner III, an idiosyncratic social observer and satirist who wrote under several pseudonyms. 2010-01-29T05:32:00Z Part of what makes Stillman such a witty satirist and an acute observer of his own rarefied slice of the social world is his faith in affiliation as a fundamental character trait. Whit Stillman Pays a Visit to Jane Austen 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Surely no modern American politician has been eviscerated as thoroughly by satirists as Trump. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Over the past two decades, the satirist has acquired a fearsome reputation for embarrassing high-profile figures on both sides of the Atlantic. Who else might be a victim of Sacha Baron Cohen's new show? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In that sense, "Soylent Green" serves as an example that other social satirists may want to emulate. "Soylent Green" scarred me with its disgusting twist ending – but scientists love its prescience 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The 56-year-old satirist joined Fox in 2007 after being a magazine editor at Men’s Health, Stuff and Maxim in the U.K. Fox News gives satirist Greg Gutfeld a weeknight talk show 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z So is his sense of Chekhov as a social satirist, whose characters are closer to the quirky grotesques of Charles Dickens than we usually realize. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z He and the late Ray Goulding were among the drollest and most inventive pop-culture satirists of their generation as writers, producers and actors. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z “It’s an interesting achievement for a satirist, for someone who’s taking shots at society, to have that kind of affection.” Bewildered in “Bloom County”: How its long hiatus transformed the still-beloved comic 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Her father – a satirist who wrote for Iranian newspapers during the time of the Shah, often coming up against the censors – moved the family to London in the 1970s. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z “I Want to Live!” combines Ms. McKay’s virtually unlimited gifts as a singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, ukulele player, mimic, satirist and comedian into a show that is much deeper than its surface might suggest. Music Review: Bringing Out the Bad Girl for Some Tough Times 2011-03-24T22:06:02Z Hogarth and the political satirists who followed him in Georgian England surely helped to lay the foundations of real democracy with their irreverent popular art. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z But Holsinger is not at heart a satirist, or at least not a mean one. Review | Parents will stop at nothing to get their kids into a prestigious school 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z LVIV, Ukraine — Some morsels of news are so grim and absurd that they sound like they were conceived in the warped imagination of bored satirists. Is There Anything Funny About the War in Ukraine? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z She is also introducing a new comedy show on Friday nights, and satirist and impressionist Rory Bremner will host a new comedy show. Radio 4 chief vows greater 'internationalism' 2011-01-24T07:27:24Z By lampooning the staid, self-important tone of some traditional news broadcasts, satirists sought to upset legacy media conventions. 2004: When Fake News Was Cool 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z In this context Killer Mike is part activist, part satirist, setting up each episode with a thesis statement and following the path of prove it to interesting ends. Smart Watch: Killer Mike and Kal Penn explain it all in In "Trigger Warning" and "This Giant Beast 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z “He’s a great low comedian and a sophisticated satirist — that’s a great combo platter.” He’s Got a Good Wig on His Shoulders: Meet Cole Escola 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Jackson is a student and a satirist of elite lives. Review: ‘Prodigals’ by Greg Jackson Skewers the Elite 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “They” are museum curators and gallerists who are not interested in showing the work of Mr. Cenedella, a gifted painter and visual satirist. Review: ‘Art Bastard’ Depicts Robert Cenedella, a Rebel Artist 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s not every day that a public servant takes dumb to an all new place, engaging in acts so incredibly daft that they exceed the ability of mere mortal satirists to publicly mock them. City Light’s copper heist is pure-grade comedy gold 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z At a hangar in North Charleston, he drew just 50 people, possibly because satirist Stephen Colbert's rally was nearby. Gingrich narrows race with Romney in South Carolina 2012-01-21T05:19:00Z It's been a tough, scary week for satirists, though. 'Boyhood' leads Golden Globes, 'Grand Budapest' upsets 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z One clear factor is that satirists are more powerful in the public sphere than ever in human history. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The news was at odds with Keillor’s public persona as the gentle, avuncular satirist of Midwestern puritanism. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Because Mr. Beane has been such a canny social satirist in the past, I kept hoping he would pull the Aubusson rug out from under the Fitches’ pretensions, both the naughty and virtuous kind. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z There is a sense, of course, in which watching a Fox News anchor and a former liberal satirist discuss journalistic integrity is a bit of a gas. Megyn Kelly, vulnerable and terrifying: Why Donald Trump should be scared of tonight’s big interview 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z But on Friday, the political satirists found himself apologizing to the black community for his regrettable use of the n-word. “People make mistakes and we’re all sinners”: Bill Maher didn’t offer the best apology for racial slur 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z And it’s a revelation, a trove of snappy pieces that give the reader tantalizing glimpses of the mature film satirist who would win six Oscars for his work. Review | Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z And while it is certainly true that we can count more left-leaning satirists than right-leaning ones, that split is directly tied to the partisan divide over reality. Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Like Americans who perished fighting in the war, or European satirists shot down in their Paris offices, or Western journalists executed by ISIS, they need to be remembered too. The dehumanizing of Iraqis is the main 'American Sniper' issue 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But even Randall pays little attention to what makes Morris distinctive as a satirist: his protracted engagement not with politics but with media practice. Chris Morris: the Orson Welles of British comedy? 2010-04-14T09:03:00Z This research, often inspired by the success of liberal satirists such as Colbert, Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee, certainly provides intriguing looks into the relationship between politics, psychology and sense of humor. How conservative comic Greg Gutfeld overtook Stephen Colbert in ratings 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z I very much liked the film – directed by Joe Cornish, who is better-known as a comedian and satirist – when it came out last May. Trailer trash 2011-08-13T23:06:21Z The satirist Stephen Colbert stares out at a towering "telecommunications skyscraper whose peak bristles with microwave transmitters" and thinks mostly about cancer. New York City views 2010-07-31T23:04:00Z When I first met the future education secretary Michael Gove in 1992, I was writing jokes for him when he was a satirist on the groundbreaking Channel 4 opinio-tainment show A Stab in the Arras. Fists full of sausage, Michael Gove declaims his vision of the future 2013-03-24T00:05:37Z In each of these cases, the satirist is aiming at fundamentalist, dogmatic ways of thinking. They’ll come for “The Daily Show” next: Why satirists always threaten fundamentalists 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Letterman, who hosted 6,028 late-night shows in 33 years on the air, will be awarded the 20th annual prize named for the 19th century U.S. novelist and satirist on Oct. David Letterman to be awarded Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Bell tried to defend Mr. Oliver as an equal-opportunity satirist, to no avail. The Uninvited Guest: The 2016 Campaign Crashes the Dinner Party 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Samantha Bee, the late-night talk show host and satirist, displayed a photo Ms. Trump had posted on social media in which she is nuzzling her son. About Samantha Bee, Ivanka Trump and That Word 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z A popular television satirist who mocks the powerful on a nightly program. Essential Arts & Culture: Visceral border art, a 'guileless' Wilshire Grand, must-see African sculpture 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Lucky for us, this popular Washington Post political satirist is here to point out the absurdity of public figures in the funniest ways. Ten books to read in June 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z If we look back on the comedy of a number of on-air satirists over the past four years, we see that there are quite a few who were never Trump-obsessed. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Bernie and the responsibility of a satirist during an election year at the 2016 Riot LA comedy festival on Saturday, where he performed a live version of his Fusion show to a sold-out crowd. Not all comedians are tickled by Trump: He’s “in the news and that’s our job, but personally, to me? It’s nothing but scary” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z My natural disposition is a satirist and a comic. This isn’t about free speech: Internet “supervillain” isn’t being censored by Twitter’s lightweight rebuke 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Once seen as a profanity-spewing angry young man, Rock is becoming the Jon Stewart of the African American community, an astute social satirist bursting out of the comedy box. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z Unless Stone, Loeb and Schiff believe that the stock market really is just a game, with no calamitous consequences, they have seriously breached the satirist's code. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z For that reason, most satirists worth their salt get in trouble with the authorities. The war on laughter: What the Charlie Hebdo attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The comic, a veteran of satirical TV panel show Mock the Week, says that it's "not a coincidence that you see people we would call satirists at the politician-of-the-year awards." Frankie Boyle gets satirical – and Two and A Half Men star says: stop watching 2012-11-27T15:18:44Z None of this matters in the eyes of partisans and satirists. ‘Saturday Night Live’ thinks it’s figured out the Trump brothers. Does it get them right? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z As a satirist of American media and politics, though, Noah walks a fine line between critique and sympathy for his American audience. Africa is not a country — and it’s not all misery and poverty, either: What America can learn from Trevor Noah 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z A former television satirist and a longstanding Berlusconi foe, Guzzanti employs some of the comic techniques made familiar by Moore although her style is more measured than the maverick U.S. filmmaker. Italian satirist takes aim at Berlusconi at Cannes 2010-05-14T12:22:00Z The Trump administration is the gift that keeps on giving for comedians and satirists. Pauly Shore’s impersonation of Stephen Miller is too damn real 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z He had years and years of experience as a comedian, as a satirist, as an actor and as a writer as well. Fortune: Bremner and Sergeant tributes 2013-12-31T16:35:25Z But despite those precarious turns, Swift became a poet, a priest, a political operator and, of course, the greatest satirist in the English language. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Kelly said Stewart explained he was a satirist and his comedy didn't come from a mean place. Fox's Kelly gets big role for convention 2012-08-27T11:29:09Z These are only just a few examples of the various ways that satirists have been helping to call attention to critical issues central to the impeachment debate. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z So, the idea of a satirist testifying at Congress in the hopes of influencing policy is not exactly new. 25 years of "The Daily Show": Here’s 5 ways it permanently changed U.S. satire 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z According to David, "They'd earned the right to be satirists, or just to be silly." Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z Wolfe’s pyrotechnics wouldn’t have mattered had he not been a brilliantly gifted social observer and satirist. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The literal-minded political satirist has a larger arsenal of the truly strange than the Surrealist can hope to find. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z "Tom Sharpe was one of our greatest satirists and a brilliant writer," she said. Tom Sharpe, British comic novelist, dies age 85 2013-06-06T10:26:33Z Nor is it surprising that the first reality-TV president inspired hordes of satirists, even though their efforts often fell flat, whether in the woefully misjudged liberal-elite parody “The Hunt” or Jon Stewart’s tonal misfire “Irresistible.” Perspective | Movies are rushing to impact the election. Don’t ask whether they’ll work. Ask whether they’ll last. 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In an interview, the American musicologist Jacek Blaszkiewicz called Offenbach “the prototypical European satirist. I think European audiences still, to an extent, kind of get the joke.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z A satirist is committed to telling the truth, standing up for minorities and exposing hypocrisy. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z The satirist throws down his sword, and holds out an uxorious bouquet. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z This spring Wood hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner to rave reviews, a major feather in any topical news satirist's hat. Roy Wood Jr. is leaving "The Daily Show" after eight years, and we sadly understand why 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The sexist jerk some saw in the tweets, or the sharp satirist we saw school Jon Stewart on Africa on his debut appearance on the show? Trevor Noah’s Fox News problem: The real challenge facing the new “Daily Show” host 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z "What happens at the Supreme Court is way too important not to pay attention to," says Oliver, the British satirist who hosts the program, as he introduces the segment. Millions view talking dogs online spoof of U.S. Supreme Court 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Also, oddly, satirists in the Trump era have often found themselves in the unlikely position of defending core institutions rather than just mocking abuses of power. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z His zombie films alone are the work of a major satirist, being highly vivid socio-political metaphors and sometimes better records of the years in which they were made than countless serious dramas. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Hislop is merely one very prominent example among many satirists and comedians, on screen, online and in print, who portray British politics as a nest of fools, knaves and incompetents. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because “in the late ’30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white.” Ronald Searle, British Cartoonist, Dies at 91 2012-01-04T03:05:54Z It can also happen the other way around: the writers of “Silicon Valley,” like all the best satirists, occasionally try to stretch the truth and end up anticipating it instead. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z For a political satirist, this kind of setting is an invitation to play. Aerospace lobbyists, military in satirist Buckley's cross hairs 2012-06-07T20:38:04Z This last point, of course, reminds of why it is the satirists and comedians who often get at Trump coverage better than straight news. Donald Trump and the media: The problem isn’t too much coverage — it’s how this president i... 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Edgy satirists like Lee Camp and Jimmy Dore are informing viewers and covering stories ignored by the mainstream news. Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z The satirists were completely disregarded as news producers continued to make ever more melodramatic, repetitive and graphically absurd programmes. Ed Miliband looks as gormless as Wallace but in a totally different way 2012-12-16T00:06:04Z Actually, though, I can think of few people better qualified to be an MP – at least its Platonic ideal – than a satirist. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z When I ask him, though, if he thinks of himself as a satirist, his answer is, for once, uncategorical. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z One can almost hear the cries of "Luxury!" from satirists of the prolier-than-thou syndrome. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z Now she wants desperately to understand a clever woman who was a satirist, idealist, artist and enthusiast. 'How to Be Both,' a Novel by Ali Smith 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “His passionate nature and ability to be wildly entertaining make him a first-class satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift. He’s fearless, witty, and hates hypocrisy and injustice.” Bill Maher is smug, outspoken and just might get a congressman voted out of office Facebook feeds and tweets are rife with satirical clips and memes that come to us from both professional satirists and what I call “citizen satirists.” Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z Gaetz was often referred to as part of the "warrior class" that pledged to defend Trump, making his fall from grace even more spectacular, thereby offering satirists an irresistible target. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He's a true satirist who can take aim at anyone but reserves particular scorn for those who reawakened his sense of hope just long enough to exploit it. Jon Stewart was born to bash Obama 2010-06-22T18:25:00Z Years ago, when Stewart helmed “The Daily Show,” its satirists celebrated the show’s status as a fake news organization. When laughing matters: Late-night comedy gets serious in an absurdist era of governance 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Typically the role of the satirist is to call out the flaws in the system, to speak truth to power in a witty way, to expose hypocrisy, and to mock hubris and folly. Jon Stewart, defender of American values: How comedians are redefining patriotism now 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z And today his legacy is that we have a broad slate of sharp-witted satirists continuing the tradition. Jon Stewart, defender of American values: How comedians are redefining patriotism now 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z But as is the case with all great satirists, Youssef’s wit glosses an extremely sharp and insightful analysis of Egypt, the Middle East and the power of satire. “Stupid is stupid no matter what country you’re from”: What Bassem Youssef’s story of Egypt can teach Americans 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Rothenberg belongs to a long line of social satirists spearing the status quo. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z He wasn't an angry, dark, bitter, brooding satirist; he was a man who loved life. Fortune: Bremner and Sergeant tributes 2013-12-31T16:35:25Z “I’m just a comedian,” Jon Stewart, the arch satirist of the Bush years, would tell interviewers when asked about his influence on the real world. 'We just want to make fun of Toby Young!': socialist US comics Chapo Trap House 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z We have plenty of sharp satirists to fan the flames of our searing political arguments. Perspective | Finally, a comic novel gets a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The New Yorker satirist posits that mass media has encouraged the American electorate to vote for politicians with stage presence instead of brain power. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Watch him skewer the political establishment, and learn how a satirist finds the killer image in a larger-than-life demonstration of his art. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z But the degree to which contemporary satirists regularly engage in direct political influence and leadership is new. 25 years of "The Daily Show": Here’s 5 ways it permanently changed U.S. satire 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Mo is frequently classified as a satirist: The Republic of Wine tells the story of an official sent to the countryside to investigate rumors of cannibalism. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z "Colbert deserves to be held against the greatest satirists in American history," says Sophia McClennen, a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at Penn State and the author of "Colbert's America: Satire and Democracy." Colbert: To academics, he's the Higgs boson of political satire 2012-07-10T19:44:07Z Jay Lynch, an artist, writer and satirist who was a central figure in the underground comics revolution of the 1960s and ’70s, died on March 5 at his home in Candor, N.Y. Jay Lynch, Underground Comics Creator, Dies at 72 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z On his 350th birthday, it’s good to remember that despair is the satirist’s temptation and the citizen’s poison. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z What brings Miller back to the stage, the former satirist explained, is the "social anthropology of it". Jonathan Miller attacks West End trend of 'dumping' classic plays in a new era 2013-02-02T11:23:44Z Yet this is more than a simple act of homage, and Youssef – despite his deference – isn't just another political satirist in Stewart's mould. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z Mr. O’Rourke has been a political satirist since the 1970s, writing for National Lampoon in its heyday, and has since worked as a journalist and a foreign-affairs commentator. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z But in what may prove to be an even more significant intervention, the American satirist Stephen Colbert has come out for secession. Stephen Colbert backs independence for Scotland: 'Ich bin ein Edinburgher' 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Today's satirists inform and educate the public, run for office, propose legislation and engage in all sorts of political activities. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z It was film-makers, dramatists and satirists, however, who were leading the race towards modernity. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z It is not clear if Morsi himself took umbrage or whether his entourage has given instructions to silence the satirist – or at least remind him of the line not to cross. Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef will not let his humour be silenced 2013-06-11T13:05:45Z But they were also satirists in need of spectators with whom they could share their peculiar brand of humor. Revisiting the brilliance of "McGear," Paul McCartney's brother Mike's 1974 solo album 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Its rivals in the hunt for the outstanding British film prize are 127 Hours, Another Year, Made in Dagenham and Four Lions, the controversial suicide bomber comedy by the satirist Chris Morris. King's Speech bosses Baftas 2011-01-18T08:31:54Z And he told the London Evening Standard newspaper on Tuesday that two of his dream roles are musical satirist Tom Lehrer and rocker Iggy Pop. Critics hail Daniel Radcliffe's latest stage turn 2013-06-19T13:18:09Z There are all these political satirists who are so serious, deconstructing religion and politics. Bo Burnham: 'I'm honest ? for two minutes' 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z Wilder could affect a teasing polemical tone, a kind of Weimar version of American journalist and satirist H.L. Review | Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z It was here that I first came upon the translated works of the acidulous satirist Aldo Busi, whose “Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhose Salesman” seems lamentably little known in the English-speaking world. The Europe Issue : How I Fell for Milan 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z Political satirist and comedian Stephen Colbert asked the controversial filmmaker blunt questions on Monday about his upcoming documentary series on Showtime, “The Putin Interviews.” Watch Stephen Colbert grill Oliver Stone over his new Vladimir Putin documentary 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Sharp observations like these show us glimpses of the acidulous social satirist of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Review | Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The Mark Twain Prize honors people who have an impact on society in the tradition of Samuel Clemens, better known as Twain, as a social commentator and satirist. Carol Burnett to win top US humor prize in DC 2013-05-21T15:06:13Z How would you describe your inner monologue or how you observe things as a satirist? From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z He felt duty-bound as Broadway’s premier satirist to knock it down a peg. Now ‘Spamilton’ Really Can’t Miss Its Shot to Tease ‘Hamilton’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z It hurtles along like a two-hour cartoon infused with a schoolyard satirist’s vigor and derision. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z Poet and satirist Dorothy Parker once said, "I hate writing; I love having written." The 5,000-year history of writer’s block 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Brooker, a British writer, producer and columnist for The Guardian, made his reputation as a satirist and host of shows like “Screenwipe” and “Newswipe,” offering caustic commentary on events and media coverage of them. Jon Hamm Stars in ‘Black Mirror’ Christmas Special 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Kimmel seized eagerly on the theme of the staff’s bravery, hoping perhaps to get the audience back with appreciation for the sacrifices the satirists made for free speech. Bill Maher’s Charlie Hebdo mess: Last night’s “Jimmy Kimmel” revealed why we need studio audiences 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z I've always been fascinated by the notion of a political satirist. Alistair Beaton and Anthony Neilson: double trouble 2010-07-27T20:31:00Z Evidently Mr. Alessandrini, an altruist as well as a satirist, has looked upon a starved Manhattan and realized the people need him. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!’ at 47th Street Theater 2012-09-07T02:00:00Z As I've explained in relation to the rise of satirists as political actors in the Trump era, there has been a steady increase in satire playing a direct role in political action. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Do you think of yourself as a satirist? Q. and A. With T.J. Miller: ‘Silicon Valley’ and the Mucinex Phlegm Ball 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “I’d like it to be clearer which side I’m on,” the deadpan satirist told Slate. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Yes, the mass media supplied the public with incendiary rhetoric and insult commentary from pundits and satirists before read-write internet access reached all Americans. Ranting made simple: How news sites’ online comments helped build our hateful electorate 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Another Titian from the Living Hall depicts the well-known poet, playwright and satirist Pietro Aretino, a friend of the artist’s and, to judge from this likeness, an intimidating hulk of a man. Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca’ Comes to the Frick 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Since TV news has increasingly shifted into a tabloid style of hype and fear, it is the satirists who have oddly become one of our main sources of critical reporting and insightful analysis. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Some folks clearly don't know enough about Yankovic's expertise as a satirist as well as parodist, alongside his world-class accordion-playing skills. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is stranger than nonfiction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z O’Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, has died at age 74. P.J. O’Rourke, irreverent author and commentator, dead at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Owen took a gamble and made the first call to Sklar, whom she'd met through her husband, satirist, musician, actor, comedian — and Spinal Tap's bassist — Harry Shearer. Judith Owen connects with '70s troubadours on her new 'Ebb & Flow' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Oshima was a brilliant satirist, provocateur and poet of the senses whose movies were elegant, angular weapons against stifling hypocrisy and confirmity. Nagisa Oshima: provocateur and poet 2013-01-15T17:37:26Z Still others decided Machiavelli was a satirist, while Rousseau read “The Prince” as a warning: Machiavelli, by dissecting the mechanics of power, was telling people what they ought to fear. A New Book Asks: Just How Machiavellian Was Machiavelli? 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Lampooning the foibles of the English class system as well as clerics, politicians and even other artists, Mr. Searle was often described as a latter-day version of the 18th-century British graphic satirist William Hogarth. Ronald Searle, British Cartoonist, Dies at 91 2012-01-04T03:05:54Z Mr. Wagner is, like most satirists, a savage moralist, and he marvels at the callous cruelty of his carefully groomed creatures. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In the stories collected in “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?,” we encountered Collins the sharp, skillful satirist, especially where respectability politics were concerned. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He could be one of those pleasant, unprincipled characters, beloved of British satirists, who schemes his way to the top. Orlando Bloom in The Good Doctor: Malpractice Makes Perfect 2012-08-31T14:30:39Z Combining the earnestness of a journalism professor and the sarcasm of a satirist, Mr. Stewart routinely charges that Fox’s news anchors and commentators distort Mr. Obama’s policies and advance a conservative agenda. Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” experienced a ratings renaissance after the 2016 election as Mr. Colbert became one of the most popular television satirists of Mr. Trump and his administration. Stephen Colbert to Produce an Animated Trump Series 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z “Marrow” is a mordant look at a depraved society, more exemplary of Yan’s other work — he has handily drawn comparisons to Kafka and the foundational Chinese satirist Lu Xun — than its companion novella. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z He could be their most powerful critic and tormentor, but he was no mere satirist. They’ll Just Hate to See Jon Stewart Go (So They Say) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He changed his birth name, Ira Stadlen, when he started out in show business, combining the names of two of his favorite satirists, Fred Allen and Jonathan Swift, to create Allen Swift. Allen Swift, Unsung Voice Actor, Dies at 87 2010-04-28T02:28:00Z The issue of the politically material effects of satire assumes that the goal of the satirist is to bring down a tyrant or install a new regime. Lessons from “the Egyptian Jon Stewart”: “The satirist’s role ends at the screen” 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z This is the very business of biography — “the most sheepish and constrained of the arts,” the English journalist and satirist Craig Brown writes in his new book, “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.” Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z As unlikely as it may seem, there is increasing evidence that satirists are doing a better job of informing the public and shaping debate than much of the mainstream news. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z If he wins a Westminster seat on Thursday, his metamorphosis from satirist to budding statesman will be complete. John O'Farrell: the comedian turned politician with a shot at Eastleigh 2013-02-27T15:00:04Z Al Franken, once among the nation's leading political satirists, was elected to the United States Senate and promptly disappeared. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z Commonly attributed to Mark Twain, that quotation instead appears to be a descendant of a line published centuries ago by the satirist Jonathan Swift. That Wasn’t Mark Twain: How a Misquotation Is Born 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z As Noah takes over for one of the most socially significant satirists in our nation’s history, it’s hard not to use ratings as a measure of success and an indicator of impact. Trevor Noah has cratered “The Daily Show”: He has no bite, no message — and has let Fox News off the hook 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z A review of “The Promise” in The New York Times Book Review called Galgut “a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.” Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z SMOLinski’s style suggests German-American satirist George Grosz, while his teeming, hellish compositions recall Hieronymus Bosch. Review | In the galleries: Tiny contemporary monuments to transient phenomena 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z I wonder whether “harmful fun” might not be a better, if oxymoronic, term for the art of the satirist. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The problem with that, though, is that you're not Chris Morris, so to try and second-guess this mercurial satirist will always be fruitless. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Biden may have a new job in the White House, but that doesn't mean that the satirists will be out of work. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Yet he is one of the country's fiercest satirists. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z Its author is being resurrected as America's answer to Noël Coward, a social satirist and wit – an example of one of line being: "I always start writing with a clean paper and a dirty mind." Lost classic Auntie Mame revived after 50-year gap 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z "Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt," wrote the satirist Juvenal of the common people of ancient Rome. With the Ringling era ending, two acrobatic shows fly high with modern takes on the circus 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z In fiction, technological anxiety is more typically the province of satirists rather than scaremongers, and it’s not hard to see why. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The West Wing and The Newsroom may, indeed, be the perfect shows for a moment in which it’s probably too late to expect a major and defining satirist to emerge. Will McAvoy Nostalgia Proves How Awful 2016's Political Comedy Has Become 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z More than three decades later, Baltimore journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken reached a decidedly different conclusion. When SCOTUS still fixed things: What America looked like before the Warren Court 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z But his second career as a sardonic musical satirist brought him far more notoriety. Local shows of note: 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Tom Lehrer tunes, Mexico City troupe 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z It’s easy to champion a satirist’s freedom to offend somebody else. The war on laughter: What the Charlie Hebdo attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Some Chinese say they prefer rival television satirist Stephen Colbert - although humor may not be the only issue at stake. Jon Stewart's humor a hit with millions of envious Chinese 2013-05-20T06:39:58Z He doubles as a superstar satirist, the most popular – and most unlikely – presenter on Egyptian television. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z Perhaps because he comes on so strong, Moore has never been given the personal pass that other satirists like Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert receive. Michael Moore: 'Donald Trump is a performance artist' 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The Nazis kept a long list of writers to settle scores with, but one in particular inflamed them: the left-wing satirist Kurt Tucholsky. Giving a Satirist of the Third Reich the Last Laugh 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet they accept lawsuits against satirists who lampoon, among others, Islamist politicians. In Egypt, satire can't just be a laughing matter 2013-04-10T15:50:26Z Sure, Colbert has not abandoned his role as a political satirist, offering weekly interventions that are both funny and sharp. Samantha Bee is Jon Stewart’s real heir: Finally, the 2016 campaign has the satirist we so desperately need 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z So, it comes as little surprise that the best coverage of the impeachment debate has come from satirists. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z As the building shakes and heaves around them, they debate whether the mega-troll is truly a satirist or just a nihilist. South Park finale: trolls create chaos by 'bringing out the worst in humanity' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z For a satirist, she has a big heart, jabbing her subjects without really going for the kill. Now Playing Nightly on Instagram: Sketch Comedy’s Newest Star 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z One online satirist suggested it should reopen as a museum of fakes – "If you can't be the best, why not be the worst?" Scandal in China over the museum with 40,000 fake artefacts 2013-07-17T15:49:36Z All political satirists make a point of insisting that they should not be a source of knowledge; they are just entertainers. “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The question we have to ask is whether Noah can be the caliber of political satirist that Stewart was when he hosted the show. Trevor Noah has cratered “The Daily Show”: He has no bite, no message — and has let Fox News off the hook 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The political song satirist unveils a fresh new hour of material, with nothing about the Republican nominee because he is unable to rhyme anything with “orange” or “Hitler.” Avoiding the debate tonight? Here are 29 (totally real) shows to watch instead! 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Years later, he encouraged a new generation of current affairs satirists with Hungry Beast. Andrew Denton: his final farewell? 2013-06-26T04:16:27Z If becoming an MP doesn't seem the most obvious career choice for a successful satirist, at least his constituents will appreciate his honesty. Why the satirist John O'Farrell would make a great MP for Eastleigh 2013-02-13T12:55:01Z The more immediate question posed by President Obama’s appearance on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Wednesday is whether a political satirist loses credibility when hobnobbing with a sitting president. ArtsBeat: The TV Watch: Access and the Plight of the Political Comedian 2010-10-28T10:54:00Z Thus, a final irony: a man who had been one of the country's leading literary theorists became a scathing critic – sometimes satirist – of literary theory's self-importance. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z In a statement, Auslander praised his new star: "Steve's range is astounding -- he is a comedy legend, a gifted satirist, and he possesses the unique combination of talents this role demands." Steve Coogan to take Philip Seymour Hoffman role in 'Happyish' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z A film inspired by it, “Today’s Special,” is now in theaters, helped no doubt by Mr. Mandvi’s current popularity as a satirist on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” | 'Today?s Special': Food, Family and Follies 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z Norris, as a satirist, did not fully realize when she put pen to paper just how much she was sacrificing. How cartoonists think about free expression and Islamic extremism 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Instead, the actor wanted to depict the complicated style of the counterculture comedian and satirist, who died over 50 years ago. Lenny Bruce Is Still Talking Dirty and Influencing People 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential front-runner and the campaign’s juiciest target, is so deliberately outlandish that he has left little maneuvering room for the professional satirist. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Out of all her "Daily Show" colleagues, Bee and her team were the only satirists consistently covering issues related to reproductive rights, voting rights, structural discrimination and labor issues. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Her surname was revered by fans — but cut to a punch line by satirists. Margaret Keane, Painter of Sad-Eyed Waifs, Dies at 94 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z When we think of George Orwell, who died on this date in 1950 at the age of 46, it is primarily as a satirist. Considering George Orwell on the anniversary of his death 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z The Twain prize, named after the 19th century satirist, is the nation's highest honor for achievements in comedy. Carol Burnett honored for comedy chops with Mark Twain Prize 2013-10-21T03:38:15Z Infatuated Manhattanites were suckers for the sort of dishes that one satirist mocked as “potage au lay de mush” and “pattey de pumpkin.” French Embassy Starts a Festival and Albertine, a Bookstore 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The most sustained impression to date of his character, as well as his working practices, comes in Lucian Randall's new biography of the satirist, Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris. Chris Morris: the Orson Welles of British comedy? 2010-04-14T09:03:00Z Young says contemporary satirists have been reluctant to compromise their status as outsiders. How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z This ingenious debut novel asks some of the most important questions fiction can ask, and it marks the debut of an abundantly talented and stylish satirist. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The author of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was a humorist, satirist, and popular public speaker who often appeared wearing a white suit. Mark Twain's grave robbed of bronze plaque 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “Then in Iraq I met my peers – comedy is a baby industry there, but there are sketch writers and satirists all operating under really tough times. They were keeping going, using comedy.” 'I too have a dream': the podcast showing Trump the truth about US immigrants 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z And while it is true that satirists tend to sway to the left, their real affiliation is not to a party or candidate but to reason, sanity and sound arguments. Sure, Jon Stewart resigned, Trump is a joke and Larry Wilmore got canceled: Understanding the power of political satire this election 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z A number of satirists asked people to imagine the concept in reverse. US TV drama about Saudi Arabia axed 2014-03-24T18:14:04Z For such a keen observer of social norms and an effective satirist of the ways gender is complicated by them, Schumer has a shockingly large blind spot around race. Amy Schumer: comedy's viral queen 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z On Sunday, the British satirist and host of Last Week Tonight, eviscerated mega-churches, which earn millions every year by preying on the vulnerable to donate hefty, tax-free donations – but are somehow exempt from paying taxes. God bless John Oliver: late-night comedian forms his own church 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Speaking to packed auditoria and hailed by adoring crowds, he’s been treated more like a movie star than a satirist. Rosewater review – Jon Stewart's Iran-interrogation drama creaks at the edges 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Candidates regularly appear on late-night comedy shows, satirists frame issues of social relevance, stories get "broken" by satire news shows, and comedians go beyond joking to address their audiences on issues all the time. 25 years of "The Daily Show": Here’s 5 ways it permanently changed U.S. satire 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z We were political satirists in a very real and definite context. Cohen up to satirical tricks again in "Dictator" 2012-05-16T11:05:57Z High fashion satirist guys who’ll soon be in need of chiropractors. Love Music to Surprise You? Jon Caramanica Recommends TikTok Dives 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z At first he saw himself as a satirist and that was his metier. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Many of Easton Ellis's initial tweets on the matter appear to have been deleted, but his interest appears to be genuine even if the writer is known as a satirist with meandering objectives. Could Bret Easton Ellis bring Fifty Shades of Grey to fruition? 2012-06-12T13:16:00Z The satirist said Copperfield’s story was riddled with “status anxiety”, which was something that was still ingrained in modern Britain. 'It's very modern': Armando Iannucci rips up rules with Dickens adaption 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “They are outrageous political satirists and if they don’t shine on stage in that way, people will be disappointed,” said Tom O’Neil, editor of awards website goldderby.com. Dragons, handmaids and housewives - it's time for the Emmys 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in Egypt a TV satirist has come under investigation for jokes made at the expense of President Mohamed Morsi, after a complaint was filed by an independent "Islamist lawyer", reports worldtvpc.com. Atheism gets funny, Victor Lewis Smith accused of joke-theft – and Michael Macintyre breaks box-office records 2013-01-08T15:11:48Z The paintings and prints of this 18th-century "satirist" are full of grotesque and bigoted caricatures that have no place in today's society. Hogarth and Scarfe offend humanity … and that is why they are great 2013-01-30T14:19:02Z Though it is finally more a work of showmanship than scholarship, it affirms Ms. Goldstein’s position as a satirist and a seeker of real moral questions at a time when silly ones prevail. 2010-01-21T05:11:00Z Speaking on a television interview, several decades ago, the great Australian satirist Barry Humphries was asked why Australia produced so many excellent sports people. Censorship is stifling Australia's artistic freedom of expression 2013-06-13T23:39:31Z Q: So, for the satirist, tears are just as good as laughter? From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The silver lining in this: Abnormality brings out the best in our comics and satirists, making this era ripe for Sacha Baron Cohen’s return to television. Smart Watch: Top TV picks this week include “Who is America,” “Trial & Error,” “Wynonna... 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z This gives satirists a never-ending supply of material, regardless of who is in the White House. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z An Australian political satirist seems to think he would do a pretty good job. Watch Donald Trump Star in Epic 'Game of Thrones' Mashup 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z From the red, white and blue lightboxes to the Captain America shield, Colbert is signalling to his audience that he is the same political satirist they loved. Who is the real Stephen Colbert? An early peek at his Late Show 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The satirist Kurt Tucholsky noted that the fade to dark after a silent-movie happy ending is necessary to spare viewers the spectacle of a marriage filled with “boredom and burnt milk.” An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z This is because satire is "parasitic" – a satirist appropriates formal features of an existing genre, person or event to create a pretense of authenticity and sincerity. 4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The Scottish satirist and king of the blisteringly profane diatribe? ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ Review: A Boy’s Story 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z This kind of back-channel relationship—satirists texting casually with the satirized—is a departure from much of comedic history. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In a lesson for too-clever satirists, he often fails to maintain his cool: the irony falls away to reveal, unselfconsciously, a joy at being alive. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris – review 2013-04-27T10:00:02Z “It’s not their job to be political satirists and to shake people by their shoulders and say, ‘Look at this thing — do you think it’s O.K.?’” Samantha Bee Condemns NBC and Jimmy Fallon’s Trump Interview 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The material is rich for a satirist of Rushdie’s wit. Salman Rushdie on the opulent realism of his new novel, 'The Golden House' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z At 56, after nearly 40 years of musical burlesques, the accordion-grinding pop satirist has scored his first top-of-the-pops CD with the album Mandatory Fun. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The satirists get that Trump makes no sense and they have no worries over offering “all sides” to a story. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Galgut, our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, wrote, “is a gleeful satirist, mordantly skewering his characters’ fecklessness and hypocrisy.” New in Paperback: ‘The Promise’ and ‘Whereabouts’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The monologue about the arrest of an Egyptian satirist offended the Egyptian government and sparked an unusual diplomatic incident. US Embassy in Cairo deletes tweet on Jon Stewart 2013-04-03T17:01:09Z Which is where we find the best genre satirists in film today lying in wait. Disaster Films Plague the Box Office 2013-07-19T18:26:49Z The Onion gets a star-studded new competitor I'm talking to British satirist Tony Hendra about the launch of his latest effort, and all I can think of is "This Is Spinal Tap." The Onion gets a star-studded new competitor 2011-05-10T18:11:00Z Christopher Buckley, the political satirist, said in an interview that he sensed Mr. Zinsser perched on his shoulder like a parrot when he sat down to write. William Zinsser, Author of ‘On Writing Well,’ Dies at 92 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z So what will this satirist’s penchant for third-degree banter and sloshing social engagements locate in this giant book about maturing through misfortune? 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The fact that the right was often the butt of the joke is the core of Flanagan’s argument that liberal satirists alienated Trump supporters and helped get him in office. Satire’s war on stupid: This prank on the Democrats and an ACLU brief reveal our nation’s biggest battle 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z He was an adult entertainer, a children's entertainer, a satirist, an oddball and a lover of pop music. Frank Sidebottom ... 'He'd have died to be in?the charts' 2010-06-25T23:15:00Z It's not the job of a satirist to be balanced. Political satire 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z Using the bygone stars’ own voices and sound bites, Lypsinka is at once a satirist and a tribute artist, affectionately sending up the hyperdramatic femininity enshrined in another age. Perspective | A critic taken with Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ lists 10 other favorite solo shows 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Even more bizarre, satirists are commonly more trusted than journalists. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The bumbling de La Bath can also trace his lineage to earlier satirist secret agents like Maxwell Smart, Matt Helm, Derek Flint and Austin Powers, and on a similar one-note level. 'OSS 117: Lost in Rio': Finding laughs in French spy parody 2010-07-01T20:42:00Z Did the two jolly satirists consider Christmas too commercial now? The Who: 'I shall stay home and pick nuts out of me cavities' – a special Christmas interview from the vaults 2012-12-24T09:00:00Z He’s long been one of literature’s dangling men, a caustic satirist and not to everyone’s taste. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Schumacher notes that it’s no wonder satirists return again and again to the campus setting to find fodder for their wit. Review | Irritated by tweedy academic types? Read this wonderful campus comedy. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was a humorist, satirist and popular public speaker who remains one of America's most beloved writers. Alleged Mark Twain grave plaque bandit revealed 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Is she a wicked satirist, a social critic, a writer of rom-coms? Keeping Up With New Delhi’s 1 Percent in ‘The Windfall’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z With a tip of the hat and a raise of an eyebrow, we salute political satirist and consummate comedian Stephen Colbert’s 50th birthday with this gif of him from the past ten years. Stephen Colbert Turns 50 But His Eyebrows Haven't Aged a Bit 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Sarah Palin has called Sacha Baron Cohen “evil, exploitative and sick” after revealing that the satirist had “duped” her into an interview for an upcoming series by posing as a wounded military veteran. 'Evil, exploitative and sick': Sarah Palin duped by Sacha Baron Cohen for new series 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Sarah Palin shared on Facebook that the satirist had “duped” her into an interview by disguising himself as a disabled American military veteran. Who else might be a victim of Sacha Baron Cohen's new show? 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The satirists of the Onion parodied this sort of self-absorbed approach in a podcast called A Very Fatal Murder. As Making a Murderer returns, is the obsession with true crime turning nasty? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z It turns a collection of what might otherwise feel like a set of weightless conceits into something more engaged, making clear that Saunders, like all satirists, is also a moralist. Tenth of December by George Saunders – review 2013-01-03T16:10:01Z She corresponded with the Enlightenment philosopher and satirist Voltaire, who called her “the shining star of the North.” A Hermitage Amsterdam Show Looks Closer at Catherine the Great 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Chris Morris, the English satirist, is ever on watch for examples of toxic lunacy, and a few years ago he found a piquant news item. 'Four Lions' Review: Finding Comedy in Suicide Bombers 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z The prize honors people who have made an impact on society similar to Twain, a satirist, commentator and storyteller. Tina Fey to get top Mark Twain humor prize in DC 2010-05-25T16:52:00Z Made with complete theatrical authority from first to last, it shows many aspects of Mr. Ratmansky: satirist, storyteller, dramatist, poet. Dance Review: A ?Nutcracker? Sprouts Alter Egos 2010-12-24T22:30:03Z He called himself a “guerrilla satirist,” using humor as a barbed weapon to take on issues ranging from the commercialization of Christmas to the hypocrisy of liberals. Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z A satirist who helped revolutionize stand-up comedy during the Cold War with his running commentary on politicians and current events and became a favorite of a new, restive generation of Americans. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z O’Rourke, the veteran political satirist, takes on the world of business, investment and finance, posing questions like: “The internet — whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?” New & Noteworthy 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Bill Maher, ardent atheist and fierce satirist, is just kidding about, well, everything. Bill Maher’s “dirty secret”: He’s deeply religious and prays with Ann Coulter 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Still, as a social satirist, McInerney can be so spot-on that you want to call your housekeeper upstairs and read her some of the funny bits. Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’: Social satire or consumer porn? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The satirists will keep it real when we need it most. 5 ways the 2020 election will be shaped by late night comedy 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Over the next decade, many satirists found themselves facing the question: How bold do I want to be amid this clash of free expression and Islamic extremism? How cartoonists think about free expression and Islamic extremism 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Sjón's favourite book is Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, and it isn't hard to spot the influence of the Russian satirist in his work. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z To cubarocks, it was uncomfortably close to the latter: A question arises: do Irish "satirists" ever mock the rich these days, or the "artistic elite"? Seinfeld takes up hip-hop and Rowan Atkinson takes on the law – and wins 2013-01-22T16:18:04Z But there is no denying that, despite its obligatory quota of Bennettian puns and quips, “Allelujah!” is the most openly angry play of this master satirist’s career. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Last we checked, Colbert was a mere TV comedian, or a satirist if you want to get fancy about it. Colbert: To academics, he's the Higgs boson of political satire 2012-07-10T19:44:07Z Suddenly the boyish and adorable Noah has turned into a formidable satirist who consistently calls out the Trump team for its failings. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z This display of photomontages by a Berlin Dadaist of the 1920s who became a Communist and trenchant satirist of Hitler shows that Germany's radical cultural creativity in the 1970s had deep roots. Kraftwerk tickets pass you by? Take a Krautrock tour of Tate Modern instead 2013-02-07T14:18:54Z In Japan, the royal family tends to be off-limits to satirists, whereas in places like England, it's open season. Ridiculing of leaders through satire has a long history 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z But if any movement needs a satirist, it's definitely feminism. Feminists can't be funny and angry? Are you having a laugh? 2013-02-28T14:50:01Z Blind cheerfulness alone is enough to get a satirist going, a breed born to find the canker, even in good times — but times are never that good. The serious side of 'The Simpsons' and 'Seinfeld' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z As many have noted, part of the scandal stemmed from the fact that satirists have been more trusted at times than journalists. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z As the author of plays like “The Little Dog Laughed,” Mr. Beane has proved himself one of our most agile and penetrating satirists. Review: ‘Shows for Days,’ With Patti LuPone as a Diva With Depth 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Just before the new year, “The Colbert Report” will air its final episode, and the world will lose one of its most valuable political satirists: Stephen Colbert. “The Colbert Report’s” final episode is coming much sooner than you wish 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Embarrassing revelations made by the Sony hacking seem tempting fodder, while the horrific slayings of French satirists in Paris remind everyone that comedy may be funny but it’s also vitally important to the international discourse. TV Picks: 'Hawking,' 'Golden Globe Awards,' 'Babylon' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But irony is something that gets lost in translation from the satirists in a democracy to the enforcers in a theocracy. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z As New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz said in a recent Salon interview, that put-down by Democrats has long been embraced as a winning tactic by the GOP: Joe Biden's economy is, honestly, pretty amazing: How come he doesn't get credit? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z “As a comedian and satirist, he has to navigate the complexities of competing truths, presenting perspectives that can be both thought-provoking and challenging,” a Chappelle spokeswoman told The Times on Monday. How the Israel-Hamas war is dividing Hollywood 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z “As a comedian and satirist, he has to navigate the complexities of competing truths, presenting perspectives that can be both thought-provoking and challenging,” a Chappelle spokeswoman told The Times on Monday afternoon. Dave Chappelle tackles the Israel-Hamas war onstage with a mixed reaction that included early exits 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The 73-year-old political satirist, known for his work with Private Eye magazine, died from a heart attack, his son Paul Husband said. Veteran political cartoonist Tony Husband dies 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Malone is right that satirists have become public intellectuals, that they play an important role in informing the public, and that they have become moral arbiters. Hasan Minhaj and the New Yorker: Who decided comedy needed fact-checking? 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The satirists’ Instagram post showed Jordanian riot police arresting a man for throwing a party to honor his infant son. A lesson in satire from the Arab version of the Onion: Some dictators can't take a joke 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z “But the brightest star in that galaxy was always Barry. A great wit, satirist, writer and an absolute one-of-kind, he was both gifted and a gift.” Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries dies in Sydney at 89 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z "A great wit, satirist, writer and an absolute one-of-kind, he was both gifted and a gift." Barry Humphries: Dame Edna Everage comedian dies at 89 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Headline writers, satirists and late-night television pounced anyway, labeling it Carter’s “lust in my heart” interview. Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ‘76 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The satirist aims his ageless wit on a Prohibition-era entertainment industry still vamping its way out of Vaudeville. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Short Stories 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z He joked that he became a political satirist because he “was living in Washington and it was just the expedient thing to do.” Mark Russell, political satirist who delivered jokes at a piano, dies at 90 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “Even in Seattle, where political correctness feeds at the twin troughs of good manners and social rectitude, satirist Mark Russell has a following,” John Levesque, TV critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, wrote in 1997. Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z First came the Twitter critics, then the late-night comedians and now the satirists: Prince Harry’s bestselling memoir “Spare” is getting the parody treatment, to arrive on the heels of April Fool’s Day. Another Prince Harry book? 'Spare Us!' gives his memoir the parody treatment 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Last year’s prize went to comedian and satirist Jon Stewart, who used his speech to assure the audience that “comedy survives every moment.” At Twain tribute, Adam Sandler credits family for ‘weird confidence’ 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z An exhibition of the works of 18th Century painter and satirist William Hogarth has opened. William Hogarth exhibition opens in Derby after museum appeal 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of complications from prostate cancer, his wife Alison Russell told the Washington Post. Mark Russell, political satirist who delivered jokes at a piano, dies at 90 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Their writers are genre fiction authors and experimentalists, nature poets and satirists, pulp fiction practitioners and trans-nationalists, writers of the weird, the quirky, the unsettled and unsettling. The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z In his 1931 book, “How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes,” the American satirist Will Cuppy noted that Neanderthals had fires, caves, marrow bones, mosquitoes, love and arthritis. These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’ 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Let other humorists, satirists and columnists assail you with the day-by-day account. It was the year of "eh, not bad" — and also of avoiding the obvious 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Writer, broadcaster and satirist Victor Lewis-Smith - known as a TV critic and for the hoax phone calls he made to the likes of Princess Diana - has died aged 65 after a short illness. Victor Lewis-Smith: Journalist and satirist dies aged 65 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and “Gonzo” journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z First-rate satirist Lipsyte has nothing to prove — which might be why his new novel feels so free, fast and funny. 10 books to add to your reading list in December 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The Babylon Bee faced restrictions after joking about the gender of Biden administration official Rachel Levine, and the satirist’s portrayal of the transgender woman as a biological man drew Twitter’s wrath. Banned Twitter users return: ‘We’re coming back with a vengeance’ 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In 2013, when he published his last story collection, “Tenth of December,” he was a beloved satirist, poking fun at the peculiarities of corporate-speak, theme parks and suburbia. Review | The same George Saunders wears a heavier cloak in ‘Liberation Day’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z I have chosen Horace, the ancient Roman satirist: “When you live in a time like this, it’s impossible not to write satire.” Opinion | Parody is an act of optimism 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Political satirist Andy Borowitz has published a new book, "Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber," which may surprise some readers. How the GOP weaponized ignorance — and how “smart people acting like dopes” stay in power 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Sacred cows, and the dismantlement thereof, are the heart of the satirist’s business. Review | Are you ready for some pandemic humor? Christopher Buckley is. 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Several banned Twitter users are making their return to the social media platform, following new owner Elon Musk clearing a path for the restoration of censored accounts including activists, satirists and celebrities. Banned Twitter users return: ‘We’re coming back with a vengeance’ 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z So what do the satirists have to say about him? Edinburgh Fringe: Satirists bid farewell to Boris Johnson 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes, if people don’t understand what you’re doing, it is not because they are goofs but because you haven’t done your job as a satirist correctly. Opinion | Parody is an act of optimism 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The verdict sparked protests from Italian and other immigrant groups, as well as from noted intellectuals such as writer John Dos Passos, satirist Dorothy Parker, and famed physicist Albert Einstein. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Banning Russian tourists would do nothing to weaken Mr. Putin, argued Viktor A. Shenderovich, a satirist who left Russia this year. Europeans Debate Barring Russian Tourists Over the Invasion of Ukraine 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The setlist, which will be a surprise, will draw from the musical satirist’s massive catalogue of 14 studio albums, featuring under-the-radar original songs. 14 very L.A. things to do on Father's Day that don't involve golf or fish 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Harrison hitches his bespoke wagon to that star, and the resulting scandal shows how deftly Korelitz moves as a satirist, feinting in one direction and then delivering a knockout blow in the other. Review | Jean Hanff Korelitz’s ‘The Latecomer’ offers wit in triplicate 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z But she also does something that no doctrinaire satirist would ever do: she ventures into Cassovan’s point of view, exposing the emotional complexity that accounts for his beliefs. A New Class of Campus Satire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “Thompson was one of the great satirists of American literature,” Jeff Sartain, managing editor of the academic American Book Review and a modern literature scholar, told me by email. The gonzo journalist who forever changed political campaign coverage 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z After finding success at home, some Taiwanese satirists are now branching out to produce English content with the goal of using humor to explain Taiwan’s complicated political status to foreigners. For the rising stars of Taiwanese political satire, China is a joke 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z But don’t take a satirist’s word for it. Opinion | Putin’s indiscriminate bombing isn’t just savage. It’s bad strategy. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z “This country was just settling up,” satirist Joseph Baldwin recalled as he later described what he called “the flush times of Alabama and Mississippi” in the 1830s. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z What was it in the mind of this young Iranian that would connect to this mischievous satirist, Mark Twain? These books kill tyrants: Azar Nafisi on Putin and how to 'Read Dangerously' 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z There are hosts, like satirist Ziwe and the multipotent Keke Palmer, who can do their jobs not in spite of, but because of the cultural moment. Hosts were just supposed to guide us from one commercial break to the next. Now we want them to help us make sense of the world. O’Rourke was most often identified as a political satirist, but his subjects ranged well beyond the political. P.J. O’Rourke, conservative political satirist, dies at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z O’Rourke, a journalist and political satirist with a libertarian-conservative bent, died Tuesday morning of complications from lung cancer, his publisher confirmed. P.J. O'Rourke, political satirist and journalist, dead at 74 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z He began his literary career in his 20s, his son said, translating works by French authors including the satirists Voltaire and Molière and trying his hand at magazine articles and stories of his own. Iraj Pezeshkzad, celebrated Iranian satirist and author of ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Saul, an architect and after-hours satirist, was pragmatic and wisecracking about the whole thing. Perspective | He thought getting a new kidney in the pandemic would be impossible. His son’s coach stepped up. 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z The satirist compared goblins who run Gringotts bank in the series of fantasy novels and films to characters in a 1903 anti-Semitic publication. Jon Stewart denies accusing JK Rowling of anti-Semitism 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z But as a satirist, I have to make comedy out of this. Fascinating faces of 2021: The year's breakout stars, icons and pivotal artists 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Journalists, a popular satirist and an art curator were among the others added in the Thursday update. Russia labels Pussy Riot members foreign agents 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Shenderovich is one of Russia's most prominent satirists, best known for a political caricature puppet show televised in the 1990s. Russia lists Pussy Riot member, art collector and satirist as 'foreign agents' 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z He said the actors, from a group of satirists known as "Barakuda", had used legally purchased firecrackers, not explosives, and a local government inspector had certified there was no actual damage. Russian satirist faces up to 8 years jail for sketch that mocks officials 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Sometimes satirists evoked them in covert critiques of the ruling class; for example, rats featured prominently in criticisms of the Hanoverian dynasty, which took power in England in the early 18th century. How vermin helped shape the modern world 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Banerjee, the satirist, said outrage surrounding Das was not necessarily about “what he said, but where he said it.” Indian comedian causes stir with Kennedy Center monologue 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z China’s online censors have for years relentlessly silenced political dissidents, #MeToo activists, liberal intellectuals, satirists and anybody else who has threatened to disturb the digital peace. China’s Celebrity Culture Is Raucous. The Authorities Want to Change That. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z He was a satirist who wrote moving love lyrics and raunchy marching songs. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: An image that looked like a classic oil painting 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Baron Cohen's lawyer alleges the company "took a gamble" in using the actor and satirist's likeness, thinking he would never see it. Sacha Baron Cohen sues over cannabis billboard featuring Borat character 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z That man was writer Frank Jacobs, an endlessly inventive satirist and song parodist who contributed hundreds of sendups to Mad across six decades. Remembering Frank Jacobs, the ‘poet lauridiot’ of Mad magazine who inspired comics like ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z And the string of successes has fueled an ambitious goal: “I’m working toward being one of the country’s most respected satirists.” For a U.K. Satirist and His Online Fans, Comedy Is Catharsis 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The production was an instant hit with Bay Area theatergoers, who were eager to welcome back these zany political satirists at a time when there was so much insanity to skewer. Theaters hit the one-year anniversary of shutdown. How are artists keeping afloat? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Political satirist Tim Young said Harrison's temporary removal is "ridiculous" given that Harrison's verbiage "wasn't even offensive." Chris Harrison's removal from 'Bachelor' is 'unconscionable' example of cancel culture, critics say 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Like the best work of our modern satirists and fabulists, none of Navarro’s stories is particularly easy to read: minds fail, animals cannibalize, a woman locks a puppy in a ham-curing room. Review: Strong, tormented women broadcast nightmare visions from Spain 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “What we are witnessing right now is a blatant violation of free speech in India, which the government has legitimized in full public view,” said Sanjay Rajoura, a prominent Indian satirist. India clamps down on free speech to fight farmer protests 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Being a satirist now, he added, is “a resurgence of the guy I used to be.” For a U.K. Satirist and His Online Fans, Comedy Is Catharsis 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He says his role as meme creator is more akin to an observer or satirist. From broker notes to memes: how the stock market went viral 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z But he doesn't anticipate an immediate end to life as an online satirist. Randy Rainbow made his name satirising Trump - now what? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump not only provided fertile ground for satirists but also challenged perceptions of what is and isn’t real news. Satirical Babylon Bee: ‘Paper of record’ for conservatives 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z The traditional spectacle now includes competition in four divisions: comics, the satirists; Fancies, with the flashiest outfits; Fancy Brigades, with choreographed theatrical works; and String Bands, the dancing musicians . Defiant Mummers strut through South Philly despite parade cancellation 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z “You can go viral in a day and everyone knows who you are,” he said, adding that many young people in Britain did not see themselves reflected by the satirists on their TV screens. For a U.K. Satirist and His Online Fans, Comedy Is Catharsis 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Lawyers for ComicMix argued that the publication was permissible under fair use, a legal defense that grants satirists, aggregators and remixers some leeway under certain circumstances. ‘Star Trek’ and Dr. Seuss mash-up not protected, court rules 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z I recently posed some of these questions to the playwright and satirist Paul Rudnick, whose latest effort, the HBO special, “Coastal Elites,” features a series of monologues delving into the anxieties of the current moment. Will Manhattan’s Elite Really Spurn Ivanka and Jared (and Their Money)? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Kinda scary if you think about it,” political satirist Tim Young told Fox News. 'Daily Show with Trevor Noah' slammed for wondering if Florida could be blasted off the map 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Yes, it is true that satirists are preaching to the choir, but they’re emboldening the choir. John Lithgow: 'Trump keeps on surviving. Karma never quite wins' 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z A satirist wants the reader to grimace or howl at his or her description of a politician's fatal flaws, and not chuckle comfortably as when watching a "Saturday Night Live" character parodying a politician. Lincoln Project’s anti-Trump ads show power of biting satire 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z It is no surprise that his most effective satirist is the comedian Sarah Cooper, who lip-syncs to his own words rather than writing her own. Demi Lovato has made the most damning protest song of the Trump era 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The unsettling thing about this approach is that it works — not just as a way to defang satirists but also as a way to wield power. How President Trump Ruined Political Comedy 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Given this, one could be forgiven for favoring novelist and satirist King’s irreverent, bracing overview of Indigenous history and culture over the more studious, footnoted works of licensed historians. Next week is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Mark the date with these 7 audiobooks by Indigenous authors 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The French satirist Molière once wrote: “A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.” Facts v feelings: how to stop our emotions misleading us 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z A satirist takes his or her sense of indignation and tries to shake the audience out of its sense of futility or indifference to confront the injustice. Lincoln Project’s anti-Trump ads show power of biting satire 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Political satirist and columnist Tim Young told Fox News that gushing over Harris is nothing new. Media labeled 'Democratic cheerleaders masquerading as reporters' after fawning over Kamala Harris address 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Part of this is for the reason New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz reflected in May with his piece titled, “Fauci Urges Trump to Remain on Golf Course Until Pandemic Is Over.” Opinion | President Trump is not playing enough golf 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z “Without hope, it’s a short journey from skepticism to cynicism, and then you’re cooked as a satirist,” he says. Garry Trudeau is spoofing the Trump presidency by treating it as ‘a hostile takeover’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Where the money came from was of little importance — her father was known to British satirists as “the bouncing Czech” on account of his finagled finances. Opinion | The sordid saga of Ghislaine Maxwell 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z "He sees himself as a satirist, almost like a political comedian," Sunai says. The satirist who vanished in broad daylight 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z A deadpan prose stylist with a keen ear for the absurdly self-involved dialogue that emanates from neurosis, Friedman was, at his best, a savage social satirist. This week’s passages 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Washington Times columnist and political satirist Tim Young mocked Milano for chiming in on the subject. Alyssa Milano says GOP using COVID-19 to ‘suppress voter turnout’: CNN op-ed 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Numerous other Egyptian actors, writers, satirists and sports stars have fled into exile to avoid Mr. el-Sisi’s wrath, and some have been prosecuted in absentia. Filmmaker Who Mocked Egypt’s President Dies in Prison 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “This is the time when satirists and writers need to be at their utmost vigilance,” he said. Tanzanian Cartoonist Has a Stick for Every Powerful Eye 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Crises, as any satirist or corporate publicist will tell you, wreak havoc with tone. Op-Ed: We all need to shake off the pandemic, literally 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The mischief-making magazine, which ended its print publication last year, was a formative influence on countless comedy writers, satirists, filmmakers and artists. Mort Drucker, Mad magazine artist who drew humor from American life, dies at 91 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Political satirist and “No Things Considered” host Tim Young told Fox News that “it's time to stock up on popcorn” if the pair of outspoken liberals plan on bickering in public. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, liberal activist Shaun King spar on Twitter 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Almasarir is a human rights activist and satirist who regularly pokes fun at the Saudi royal family and, in particular, the crown prince. Saudi dissident in London sues kingdom over alleged hacking 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z From 2014 he began to acquire a far higher, almost mythical, international profile, appearing on social media visiting Shia frontline fighters in Iraq or Syria – though the nickname “Supermani” was invented by a Lebanese satirist. General Qassem Suleimani obituary 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In both of these examples you have the satirist completely dropping the mask and exiting the state of play altogether, and speaking through their authentic voice. "Irony and Outrage," part 2: Why Colbert got serious — and why Donald Trump isn't funny 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z I think that a lot of the most successful political satirists — successful in terms of their broad appeal — they lead with the laughter, they lead with the joke. “Irony and Outrage”: How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Political satirist and columnist Tim Young, who recently dared Clinton to run again, thinks that she is “bored and loves the attention” but “knows” she would lose a rematch despite the high-profile media appearance. Hillary Clinton fuels 2020 speculation talking Trump, past romances in wild Howard Stern interview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Political satirist and author Tim Young told Fox News that this story “truly reveals the mindset” of the Gray Lady. The New York Times says airing national anthem on TV could trigger viewers who hear ‘political overtones’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “While I find Chris Cillizza to be very funny -- a razor-sharp satirist -- the idea that we promote him as an ‘editor’ and an ‘analyst’ is just dishonest. CNN's Chris Cillizza turns president's al-Baghdadi announcement into 'Trump-bashing opportunity,' critics say 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Lewis Black The veteran comic and satirist performs. Theater in L.A. this week: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' at the Pantages and more 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Hundreds of years ago, the satirist was considered almost like a sorcerer, because people can’t understand, “How this person criticizing the king and not getting beheaded?” “Irony and Outrage”: How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Before he declared his candidacy for President, on New Year’s Eve, 2018, he was the leading member of a troupe of actors and satirists who spoke to Ukrainians’ frustrations with the country’s turbulent post-Soviet transition. How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z "The Brexit deal is just the start. It will be followed by a fight over trade, services, farming, and all sorts of issues... Only lawyers and satirists will earn from this divorce." European press sigh over Brexit 'dragging process' 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “While I find Chris Cillizza to be very funny -- a razor-sharp satirist -- the idea that we promote him as an ‘editor’ and an ‘analyst’ is just dishonest. CNN's Chris Cillizza turns president's al-Baghdadi announcement into 'Trump-bashing opportunity,' critics say 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The reporter was Mortimer Thomson, a popular newspaper satirist and later war correspondent who worked for the anti-slavery New York Tribune under the pen name “Doesticks.” It was the nation’s largest auction of enslaved people. Now, a search for descendants of the ‘weeping time.’ 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z That is profoundly different from the kind of self-reflection we get from late-night comics and satirists, who really do not want to speak of their importance to the political process. “Irony and Outrage”: How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It also highlights his overlooked career as a Pulitzer prize-winning political satirist. Rube Goldberg: celebrating a remarkable life of cartoons and creations 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z "Malthusianism isn't new, Jonathan Swift knew that. Sometimes, only satire works," referring to English demographer Thomas Malthus and the Irish satirist Jonathan Swift. Far-right group says it was behind bizarre outburst at Ocasio-Cortez town hall 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Political satirist and “No Things Considered” host Tim Young questioned why the paper would diminish Buck’s contributions to the Democratic Party. New York Times slammed as ‘disgusting’ for downplaying Ed Buck as ‘small time’ Democratic donor 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But here we discover a biting French satirist, master of the goofy and grotesque. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z We also know that it is inherently an explicitly hybrid form of information, where political satirists are often delivering information and even news stories, but they’re framed as play and as entertainment. “Irony and Outrage”: How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Goldberg wasn’t primarily a satirist but made a significant impact with his political cartoons. Rube Goldberg: celebrating a remarkable life of cartoons and creations 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z What happens to a satirist who sees her darkest visions made real? Nell Zink’s Satire Raises the Stakes 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z One of Zimbabwe’s best-known comedians and political satirists is in hiding after being abducted from her home by unidentified armed men, then beaten, stripped, and made to drink sewage. Zimbabwean comedian goes into hiding after abduction and beating 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Political satirist and “No Things Considered” host Tim Young told Fox News that it’s “scary to think that Williams was once one of the most trusted names in news” prior to his demotion to MSNBC. MSNBC’s Brian Williams fails to push back on ‘insane, tinfoil hat conspiracy’ theory linking Trump, Hitler 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Böhmerman was prevented from repeating certain lines of his poem, prosecutors dropped charges against the satirist of insulting a foreign leader, on the grounds that hyperbole was allowed in the name of art. The El Paso Shooting Revived the Free Speech Debate. Europe Has Limits. 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The satirist, comedian and sometime actor said his goal is to explain the news through comedy and humorous clips. Andy Borowitz brings the funny to staid PBS 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The satirist, comedian and sometime actor says his goal is to explain the news through comedy and humorous clips. Andy Borowitz brings the funny to staid PBS 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z He preferred to call himself an “investigative satirist,” and he filled his magazine with articles grounded in truth but that often veered into fiction. Paul Krassner, countercultural ringmaster and leader of the Yippies, dies at 87 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “That really was a turning point in my life because I had morphed from a satirist into an activist,” he said. 1960s prankster Paul Krassner, who named Yippies, dies at 87 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Sanders, however, was not an easy target for late night satirists. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going to be one tough act to follow 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z It is said that Meechan’s fellow satirist, Juvenal, issued a similar warning to ancient Greek critics, infuriated by his cavalier use of the dactylic hexameter, in the second century AD. Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance? | Stewart Lee 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Comedy writers in Austria say critical voices and satirists are being forced into “rearguard action” by a campaign of intimidation and legal threats from far-right figures. Austrian comedy writers accuse far right of intimidation tactics 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The prize recognizes individuals who have made an impact on American society in ways similar to Twain, the distinguished 19th-century novelist and satirist whose real name was Samuel Clemens. Dave Chappelle joins illustrious class for Mark Twain Prize for humor 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In choosing a scholar over a satirist, the Correspondents’ Association had sought to solemnize a dinner known for its comedic puncturing of the Washington bubble. Perspective, Not Parody, at a Subdued Correspondents’ Dinner 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Tennant pressed his guest on the responsibility she feels as a political satirist. Tina Fey doesn't believe 'SNL' can 'sway' political opinions as much as people think 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z But Korine, a generous entertainer and a shrewd satirist, likes to mess around with form, ideas and your own guarded expectations. Review: McConaughey gives Harmony Korine’s ‘The Beach Bum’ its boozy, woozy pleasures 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “As a satirist, you always have to be against the government, even if the current government were one you always wished for,” said Hörmanseder. Austrian comedy writers accuse far right of intimidation tactics 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Attacking satirists and humorists for being disrespectful to people who are in power, as Trump and Nunes are doing, is a new thing -- and a direct attack on the First Amendment. Fox News viewers are convinced: Donald Trump is the greatest president ever 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Activists, authors, journalists and satirists have thrived in an age when politics suddenly matters again. The halfway point: what have two years of Trump's wrecking ball done to America? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z The patron writer-saint of the Viennese café in the first third of the twentieth century was Karl Kraus, who was at once Jewish and anti-Semitic, a satirist of the cafés and a habitué of them. What Cafés Did for Liberalism 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Brown, a brilliant British writer and satirist, resurrects Queen Elizabeth’s bad-girl sibling in all her louche glory, using everything from old film clips to YouTube videos to scandalous reveals from the memoirs of Margaret’s “friends.” Favorite nonfiction from 2018, from Princess Margaret to a Silicon Valley scammer 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z The crackdown now also extends beyond journalists, to anyone with a voice: actresses, comedians, satirists, bloggers, poets, singers, photographers and researchers. Opinion | How Egypt Crowdsources Censorship 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Does he, then, feel more like a satirist? David Szalay: ‘I’m laughing at myself when I write about vanity and self‑absorption’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z That quote derives from the satirist Johnathan Swift over three hundred years ago. Alarmed by fake news? Fake science is just as serious of a problem 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z This would not prevent political satirists of any political persuasion from continuing to exercise their First Amendment rights, but it would reduce the viral proliferation of dangerous outright lies that are leading to criminal actions. Opinion | The problem with what’s mistaken to be real 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z While the photographer sets up in my living room in Queens, New York City, the 83-year-old calypso originator scrutinises the screen, where the US midterm elections offer gold to this instinctive satirist. Mighty Sparrow: the king of calypso on freedom, Windrush and oral sex 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He’s a freelance illustrator who worked in the video game industry for seven years, according to the biography section of his website, but he’s mostly a political satirist. That Trump tank meme on Cesar Sayoc’s van was made as a joke, creator says 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Now aged 18, he is already a bona fide cartoonist and satirist. Child artists drawing festival attention 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Over the years he has lent his support to friends such as the irrepressible Texas governor Ann Richards, the satirist Kinky Friedman, even the independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. Willie Nelson: 'I don’t believe in closing the border. We have a statue that says: Y’all come in' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Of course, satirists have always exaggerated for effect, and they are under no obligation to be nice. Shakespeare is at the center of Julie Schumacher's witty new academic satire 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Brown, a brilliant British writer and satirist, reclaims Margaret through 99 short chapters. A botanist, a pope and a princess: Three new biographies 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Matt Forde, probably the best-known of the Brexit satirists in Edinburgh this year, has no hesitation in saying he voted Remain. Why Brexit has the Fringe laughing 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z There were howls of derision from Democrats, political commentators and late-night TV satirists. Do Republicans disapprove of Trump's meeting with Putin? 'They couldn't care less' 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z This etching by Hogarth, a renowned painter and social satirist of his day, was made in reaction to a 1737 English law that restricted the production of plays and tightened up censorship. This National Gallery of Art exhibit proves humor is an artform 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “Our renowned satirists once wrote very well about such people: ‘Pathetic, paltry people.’ Putin Says Trump’s Critics in U.S. Are Trying to Undermine Meeting 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z “Our satirists would describe them as ‘pathetic puny people,’ but they are neither,” he reportedly continued. Vladimir Putin claims powerful forces seeking to undermine outcome of Trump meeting 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It was here, said the Telegraph, that the show "bared its teeth" and reconfirmed its star as "one of the most merciless and subversive satirists at work today." Mixed reviews for Baron Cohen show 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z For his new Showtime series “”Who Is America?,” the British satirist targeted Mrs. Palin as a wounded military veteran in a wheelchair with an unusual set of questions for the former vice-presidential candidate. Veterans, military widows slam Sacha Baron Cohen for impersonating wounded warrior 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The self-proclaimed “satirists” technique was simple and swiftly replicated. How Instagram and YouTube help underground hip-hop artists and tastemakers find huge audiences 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Jesse Armstrong, the creator of “Succession,” is a satirist at heart. HBO's 'Succession': All in the rich, powerful and dysfunctional family 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z He was a fierce satirist and uncompromising realist, committed to the narration of “life, in all its shameless impurity.” Philip Roth: a generation’s defining voice 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Those detained in the current sweep are among the country’s most prominent non-Islamist activists, including three human rights advocates, a satirist, and a well-known labor lawyer. Egypt Widens Security Crackdown as Concerns of Unrest Grow 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Author of more than 25 books, Roth was a fierce satirist and uncompromising realist, confronting readers in a bold, direct style that scorned false sentiment or hopes for heavenly reward. Prolific, provocative author Philip Roth, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z His style would inspire a generation of writers, including satirist Christopher Buckley. Tom Wolfe, novelist and pioneer of New Journalism, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was debating the satirist Harry Golden at Virginia Tech University when a dean interrupted the proceedings with the horrible news that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. Review | Today an American icon, Martin Luther King Jr. once roused vicious hatred 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The term lay fallow for nearly 200 years, until it was revived by the 19th-century English satirist Thomas Love Peacock. Donald Trump’s ‘kakistocracy’ is not the first, but it’s revived an old word | André Spicer 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer — who turns 90 this month — performed what he characteristically called a “completely pointless” scientific song at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z “He was a good egg,” said the 90-year-old satirist, still at it, appearing in conversation Thursday nights at the Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley. Shelley Berman broke the mold for comics, now he'll be remembered at the new National Comedy Center. 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Often considered a satirist for his broadly drawn portraits, Wolfe saw himself as a realist and supported the claim with his reporting. Tom Wolfe, novelist and pioneer of New Journalism, dies at 88 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, clown and satirist Dan Rice ran for Congress, Senate and the presidency, and since then plenty of other comedians and entertainers have run for office. Opinion | Yet another clown wants to go to Congress 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z This is one of those moments when I’m really aware of my own limitations, because I think, “Do I know exactly what a satirist is?” Mallory Ortberg on the remixed fairy tales of her new book 'The Merry Spinster' 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z I wish these vapid reading practices masquerading as insight were limited to early American satirists, but of course they aren’t. The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z It troubles and amuses Armando Iannucci, a sly satirist with a soft voice, who glances into a coffee cup and, with little warning, ditches his Scottish accent and imitates the leader of the free world. Armando Iannucci's biting satire takes on history and black comedy in 'The Death of Stalin' 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In comedy, Crimmins’s influence looms large over the current generation of satirists and East Coast comedians. Barry Crimmins: the stand-up comic who stood up for those who couldn't 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The premiere Sunday of Showtime's animated series "Our Cartoon President" is the latest contender to join the fray, this time in prime time, of TV satirists and their unwitting comedic inspirations in Washington. Stephen Colbert's 'Our Cartoon President' hits the mark sporadically, but when it does, it hits hard 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z According to conventional wisdom, Trump, with his unprecedented ability to stoke controversy and trash historical norms, has played directly into Colbert's strengths as a left-leaning political satirist. Stephen Colbert gets a new way to satirize Trump with 'Our Cartoon President' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It would be ridiculous to suggest we eat satirists. What counts as satire in the Trump era? Not pointless Photoshop parodies | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Some fear legitimate posts by satirists or journalists are being accidentally caught up in the dragnet. France vs. fake news: An unwinnable battle? 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The number of online defamation cases has shot up, with a telecommunications law ensnaring online satirists, activists and journalists. Two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z For most of his professional life Mr Franken was a comedian and satirist for "Saturday Night Live" and other popular television and radio shows. The rise and fall of Al Franken 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z "We have a writers room that has followed Stephen since the beginning of 'The Colbert Report,'" explains Fried, who calls Colbert "one of the sharpest satirists of my generation." Stephen Colbert gets a new way to satirize Trump with 'Our Cartoon President' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z This world will be familiar to anybody who has read Mad, a satirical comic magazine published since 1952 by a stable of writers, cartoonists and satirists credited as “the usual gang of idiots”. How the world changed around Sergio Aragones and Mad magazine 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Lebanese social media satirists delivered a flurry of memes and jokes. After a Mysterious Odyssey, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Is Home 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Well into the second century, the pagan satirist Lucian of Samosata reported that Christians viewed possessions with contempt and owned all property communally. Opinion | Are Christians Supposed to Be Communists? 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Liberal satirists have published a 192-page parody magazine devoted to mocking Ryan, poking fun at “the most unpopular politician in America” and his image as thoughtful policy prince who never delivers. Analysis | Paul Ryan begins a make-or-break push for tax legislation — and his future 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z The Trump presidency promises to cement his career as a satirist or, possibly, end it. The Impossible Burden of Playing Donald Trump 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, Swift was also a published satirist of some notoriety. In retrospect: Gulliver's Travels : Nature : Nature Research 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z A hologram of late musician, composer, satirist and activist Frank Zappa will perform his songs on the road as a hologram backed by some of his living, former bandmates, according to his estate. Frank Zappa estate announces posthumous hologram tour 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z They are over-the-top, violent and nasty satirists whose lyrics middle-finger all of polite society and champion the misfits, the underdogs, the oddballs. Perspective | Juggalos may be crude and offensive, but they want you to know they’re nobody’s gang 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Sahl was a wry political commentator; Mr. Bruce was a profane social satirist; Mr. Berman was a beleaguered observer of life’s frustrations and embarrassments. Shelley Berman, Stand-up Comic Who Skewered Modern Life, Dies at 92 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z So Newman recruited, of all people, a fearless satirist he had become mesmerized by as a teenager and who had morphed into an entrepreneurial evangelist for natural weight-loss dieting. Dick Gregory’s comedy made him famous. His diet helped make Riddick Bowe a boxing champ 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z But he is a longtime satirist, who amplifies his acidity with a Southern California drawl and pleasant parlor piano stylings. Randy Newman fawns over Vladimir Putin in an ironic love song on 'The Late Show' 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Late-night US satirists find in this an unending source of high comedy. The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office | Observer editorial 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z The satirist Léon Bloy called it a “truly tragic street lamp.” London’s ‘Walkie Talkie,’ a Divisive Skyscraper, Sells for $1.7 Billion 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z In satirist Stephen Colbert's edit of that tweet, the message is somewhat different: "I'll fight you". Donald Trump’s ill-considered ban on transgender soldiers 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z “American politics has given the satirist pretty much nowhere to go. But away.” Trump as a Novel: An Implausible ‘Soap Opera Without the Sex and Fun’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The Canadian satirist Bruce McCall, in a 2013 essay for Vanity Fair, explained his nation’s comedy as a response to feeling smothered by the Americans, robbing Canadians of a fully distinct identity. Canada’s Comedy, the Voice of a Polite Nation, Rises in the Trump Era 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But the rights of a satirist to go after a public figure has been as much a fixture of American public life as a late-night monologue. Exploring the 1st Amendment in a time of Trump-media showdowns 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Few satirists would dare come up with the twists American public life has served up these last few months. How can fiction compete with the drama of Donald Trump’s presidency? 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z That’s a fitting existential question from a satirist who has excoriated the sins of the real and the holy. 'Egypt's Jon Stewart' is living in exile and trying to make his satire work in America 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z |
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