satirist

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The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of complications from prostate cancer, his wife Alison Russell told the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times

Let other humorists, satirists and columnists assail you with the day-by-day account.

From Salon

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.

From BBC