satire

This referenced a disabled character from satire series South Park, who uses a wheelchair and can only shout his own name, usually loudly and uncontrollably.

Clearly, Wright wants to make a political satire that echoes the drivel of our own actual news.

When dictators become celebrities and their atrocities become clickbait, they are almost beyond satire, which makes them especially dangerous.”

The names alone suggest a level of parody, and, in the first episode, a send-up quality flits in and out of the proceedings, but the show chooses cynicism over satire every time.

In Noah Baumbach’s sharply funny, at times melancholy Hollywood satire “Jay Kelly,” George Clooney plays an aging movie star reckoning with what his success has cost him.