satire
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The group began as online satire after India's Chief Justice Surya Kant compared some unemployed young people to cockroaches during a court hearing in May.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
But the problem with Iñárritu’s approach is that he’s fashioned “Digger” as a satire for a post-satire world, a state of living where every day is almost comically bleak.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
That the humor is farcical and dull, with a clangingly loud sound mix backing the clangingly obvious satire, seems intentional.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Erdogan should be open to the art of satire," he said, denying the charges against him and saying none of Turkey's most famous comedians or political satirists had been prosecuted in the past.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
He read and reread the works of Stephen Potter—the English writer who coined the terms one-upmanship and gamesmanship—not as social satire but as a manual of practical stratagems.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Nearly all of Irving’s once-famous satires are unread today, though “Rip Van Winkle” lives on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But Iannucci turned his attentions to political satires like The Thick of It, while Baynham was "poached by Sacha Baron Cohen" for Borat, Coogan recalls.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
But his satires have infiltrated the lexicon of American popular culture precisely because their humor is rooted in a desire to subvert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
But it wasn’t until 2019, when Ms. Auder’s yoga satires began to get some notice, that she thought she might try to sell the book one last time.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
But if we may judge from Chinese satires, women are not destitute of power in the household, and employ the arts of the oppressed with effect.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
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