satirist

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Gladiatorial combat in the arena was, in the satirist Juvenal’s phrase, “bread and circuses” for the Roman masses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The rest of his career was largely devoted to complicating and enriching the portrait, transforming himself, as his best biographer, James Gindin, observed, from a satirist into a practitioner of the “novel of compassion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The London based YouTuber and satirist had used his online voice to attack the Saudi regime.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

As attention spans keep getting whittled down, intellectually impish Romanian satirist Radu Jude continues to go longer and longer, his latest act of cinematic disobedience the nearly three-hour mythbuster “Dracula.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman