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“Idiocracy,” on the other hand, was as cheap as the mid-aughts culture it was setting out to satirize.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Hanif’s problem may be that his country gives him too much to satirize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

The shorts often satirize Christmas traditions such as gift-giving and pageants.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

Wood, 45, will host the quiz show-style format as a forum for comics, pundits and media personalities to satirize the issues of the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024

And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

He stepped out of a convertible alongside Julie and performed "Richer than Elon" -- a song that satirizes the SpaceX executive, who is the wealthiest man in the world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

HBO’s “I Love LA” satirizes the Los Angeles entertainment industry, with influencers, nepo-babies and the rich and famous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

Would you say this movie not only satirizes white Americans, but also Black Americans?

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

He satirizes only the selfish, and the hard-hearted, and the cruel.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Our critic said that in it influencer culture “is satirized with savage wit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

The move was likely in the works before the latest kerfuffle over Kimmel, who is under fire for a comedic bit that satirized the annual Washington gala that Trump attended for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

Before starting Lucy, Coogan co-founded Soylent, the liquid meal replacement of choice for techies a decade ago that was widely satirized in pop culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

As the Bulwark’s Will Sommer reported on X, some cheeky progressive satirized this by mocking up a fake poster for TPUSA’s halftime show, which promised Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and “a Guest Appearance by Measles.”

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

A similar confusion is satirized by Moliere when he has his pompous doctor announce that his sleeping potion works because of its dormitive virtue.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

“Hands!” spoofs FX’s “The Bear,” while satirizing TV conventions, like the will-they-won’t-they romantic plotlines, multicamera operation and filming in front of a live studio audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

With shows like FX’s “Adults” and HBO’s “I Love LA” satirizing real-life hardships such as layoffs, fitting in at work and unchecked career ambition, here’s how TV has taken on modern workplace struggles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

I didn’t want to live in a world of satirizing this guy forever.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

Jared Keeso stars in this “Letterkenny” spinoff satirizing performative masculinity among a small-town Canadian hockey team.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

Eventually Threpe was called up onto the stage where he sang a scathing little ditty of his own design, satirizing one of Tarbean’s councilmen.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss