satire

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With this satire, we take rock stardom back from the stars themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Dame Jenni made a cameo appearance in BBC satire W1A in 2015, interviewing Hugh Bonneville's character Ian Fletcher on a fictional episode of Woman's Hour.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

It sounded like he was the star in a Marx Brothers satire — or in “Team America: World Police.”

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026

"The live action short category, it's particularly diverse in its genres," Julia Aks, nominated alongside Steve Pinder for their satire "Jane Austen's Period Drama," told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

In Lucian’s little satire, Apollo asks Hermes: “I say, why do we never see Castor and Pollux at the same time?”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton