It is written with a clarity worthy of Flaubert, so finely noticed as to give equal ground for sympathy and satire as we watch Mrs.
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“Like A Surgeon” (1985)Like a SurgeonWhile it didn’t come close to matching the chart success of “Eat It”—which rode the Thriller wave all the way to number 12—”Like A Surgeon” played a crucial role in “Weird Al” Yankovic’s career: it proved that he wasn’t a one hit wonder, and that he could turn out another credible satire at the drop of a hat.
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The titular Boys’ third outing pushed this series to new heights with new Supes, new twists, and satire so biting that it took some people a while to figure out they were the butt of the joke.
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Oh Twitter, that wonderful place where nuance and satire is often misunderstood.
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Fundamentally a satire on gentrification, with space’s “Final Frontier” styled as the new suburbs, Goliath is a giant achievement.
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satire Putney Swope.
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A phenomenal pre-9/11 satire that somehow captured what little town life in Minnesota could be, the wildness of the pageant circuit, and starred icons Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Brittany Murphy, Ellen Barkin and Allison Janney.
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In telling the stories of Cecil Gershwin Palmer (Night Vale’s resident radio host), Dana Cardinal (radio intern and former Night Vale mayor), a literal five-headed dragon and former mayoral candidate, and more, this is a show bursting with humor and horror, a satire on the absurdities of American life.
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The series was a Super Hero satire starring Joe Gilmore and his alter ego Marshal Law, a government-sanctioned hero hunter in the futuristic city of San Futuro.
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The White Lotus is a sharp social satire following the exploits of various employees and guests at an exclusive Sicilian resort over the span of a week.
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Judge has directed and written a seminal masterpiece of the 1990s titled Office Space, a satire so effective that it is now a symbol of resistance for the increasingly popular anti-work movement on Reddit decades after its release.
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"The production more than lives up to that billing, providing a blend of satire of gothic romance, a dazzlingly eclectic score, spoofs on the conventions of musical theater, and liberation from repressive gender norms.
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It captures all the heightened intensity and confusion of being a teenager, and it’s infused right through with the kind of passionate, razor-sharp social satire that you only get when the writer is white-hot furious at the terrible things being done to a place he loves.
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Duke Nukem 3D was, at best, a crass satire centered around a sendup of 80s Hollywood action heroes.
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Clarke disagreed, telling a Washington Times reporter, “It goes beyond the bounds of legitimate satire and in some respects plays on negative racial stereotypes.
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Dre still managed to release one record together in the ’90s with “Zoom,” from the soundtrack to Warren Beatty’s 1998 political satire comedy Bulworth.
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Netflix“The White Lotus” An entertaining new season of Mike White’s satire.
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One flashpoint was Blur’s 1995 hit Country House – ostensibly a satire on success – and its Damien Hirst-directed video.
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The band’s receiving attention not only for Bermuda’s new book but also for the 2022 biographical satire film “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” starring Daniel Radcliffe as Yankovic.
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The plot even contributed to a satire poking fun at Crusher's words: "I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter in my grandmother's journal.
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With every stage in town filled with candy canes and holiday cheer, Trustus Theatre’s R-rated, darkly comic satire “Hurricane Diane” is at once a savvy marketing move, a bold and cheeky box office gamble and a refreshing dose of thought-provoking adult entertainment in a winter wasteland ….
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"Animaniacs" is packed with satire of current events, pop culture spoofs, and even the occasional adult innuendo, which makes it a treat for all ages.
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The novel is itself a satire, not an account of future events.
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While this engaging and highly animated production has more than its fair — and unashamedly rigged — share of rough and tumble, what’s at work is a withering social satire about American pop culture at its most cynical, yet also at its most heartfelt and sincere.
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The sharp-witted docu-satire follows them as they halfheartedly seek total control and dominance of the New World, as ordered by their returning master and Dark Lord.
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com/icon ReportThis is from a satire site called Scarfolk Council (https://scarfolk.
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htmlBailey Williams’s comedy is a sharp-toothed, sometimes bewildering satire of all-consuming workplace culture.
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“BoJack did start out as a solid if unremarkable showbiz satire — but then it began digging deeper into the gnarled psyche of former sitcom star BoJack Horseman and became one of TV’s most penetrating portrayals of mental illness, cartoon or otherwise.
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’ It was a dark satire cloaked in family comedy tropes, taking on many environmental topics, plus immigration, race, the Gulf War, the Clarence Thomas hearings, science denialism…”
The final two messages especially caught my attention, as I regretted alienating who I quickly learned were members of the creative team behind the show — and they’d felt proud enough to speak out.
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Over the past few weeks, Musk has reinstated several formerly banned accounts, including that of former President Donald Trump, investigative journalism group Project Veritas, and Christian satire site The Babylon Bee.
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Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo’s grimly witty satire of Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, is another novel that takes inspiration from Orwell’s political fable, first published in 1945.
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Page 7 includes some cheeky 90s satire in the newspaper clipping, and notably page 4 has a never-before-seen logo! We also get a glimpse of Kirby's Kidspeak in action.
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Political comedy serves an important purpose: While it's fun to lampoon the nature of politicians, satire can help teach us about topics that may be difficult to discuss otherwise.
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Welcoming You Back to ‘The White Lotus’The second season of “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s incisive satire of privilege set in a luxury resort, begins on HBO on Oct.
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But more than that, it is both an homage and a scathing satire of the fan culture that has grown around Gene Roddenberry’s influential science fiction series and how deadly serious people can take it.
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With Not Okay, Shepard gives us something more polished but less nuanced, trading in the subtle complexities of literary adaptation for direct and scathing satire of modern society.
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“A lot of people have talked about the gender politics and the sexual politics and the satire of the privileged — all of that is going on, but sometimes when I’m watching it, I also feel like I’m just seeing a series of interestingly drawn characters yearning for some kind of connection.
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We may always know where the satire is taking us, but there is no preaching and there is no pomposity.
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Then, last December, the Hennepin Theatre Trust purchased Brave New Workshop while vowing that its mission of satire and improvisation would remain intact.
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18 release directed by Mark Mylod, is a masterful and genre-bending satire.
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Weird Al’s music understands that satire only starts with the song itself.
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Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or-winning wealth satire won virtually every major category at Europe's biggest award ceremony.
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For those seeking to use satire or parody of corporations, jokes often run into trademark or other lawsuits and result in a little more than “ha, ha, thump.
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Philadelphia's all comedy theatre company, has kicked off their 2022-23 season with the return of their popular political satire, THIS IS THE WEEK THAT IS.
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’”Set during an annual trip to the Pines, Fire Island captures Austen's novel's wit and social satire while celebrating chosen family, the unique destination, and a spectrum of romantic ideals.
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The new Twitter owner had already begun to restore the accounts of some prominent, controversial users that had previously been banned or suspended from the platform, most notably former President Donald Trump, as well as conservative Canadian podcaster and all-beef diet promoter Jordan Peterson and the right-leaning satire website Babylon Bee.
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and his father watched together was the music biopic satire “Walk Hard.
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Lobo was created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, first appearing in Omega Man #3 in June 1983, with Giffen stating in an interview that he was created as a satire of Wolverine and the Punisher hero prototypes.
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Musk followed that tweet with another saying conservative media personality Jordan Peterson, right-wing satire site The Babylon Bee and comedian Kathy Griffin will have their banned accounts reinstated.
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net explicitly labeling its content as satire, the website's tongue-in-cheek "about" page hints at the website's humorous nature:
Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question.
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Now in her 70s, she is still going strong: Her role as a selfish, science-skeptic president during an apocalypse in Adam McKay's 2021 satire "Don't Look Up" had viewers laughing while sadly comparing the absurdity of the story to current events.
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The series is known for presenting large amounts of down-home comedy uplifted by touches of broad satire and folksy warmth.
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Former "Game of Thrones" star Clarke appears alongside Ejiofor in "The Pod Generation," a near-future social satire in which a company has invented a detachable womb, enabling couples to share their pregnancy.
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He starred in and co-wrote the 1989 movie industry satire UHF, which flopped at the box office but has since achieved cult status.
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A slippery blend of surreal thrills, reticent storytelling and irreconcilable mystery, it is also a satire from start to finish — about cancel culture, to a degree, but more so the politics and particulars of classical music.
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It's a biting satire about life in America after the presidency of Barak Obama that gets big laughs but also provokes much thought.
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For the uninitiated, The White Lotus is a dark satire that examines the intersecting lives of guests and employees at a series of luxury resorts, as a means of speaking to issues of power and sexual politics, among other topics.
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Unfortunately, Sandler pushed his luck too far with the satire that dove way too deep into dated stereotypes.
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Can the Ruben Ostlund-directed class satire “Triangle of Sadness” become the first Palme d’Or winner since “Parasite” to make a major Oscar splash? It certainly helps that the film picked up two high-profile Globe nominations: In addition to one for best comedy or musical, “Triangle of Sadness” snagged a supporting-actress nomination for Dolly de Leon, who plays a cruise-ship cleaner turning the tables on her rich charges.
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Marty Martinage ’24 and Phaedra Plank ’24 rewrote the song “Two Ladies” and created a satire called “Two Cowboys.
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This could have been biting satire were it a bit more clever.
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Paste also wrote about how 3rd Rock from the Sun’s humor has aged, saying, “A lot of sitcoms, especially those made up until about five years ago really, do not tend to age well with the rapidly evolving ideas as to what constitutes satire and what is a social blindspot.
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Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse aims for nothing less than a full vivisection of French society in “Bloody Oranges,” a daring social satire that proceeds from the premise that his homeland may be incurably ill.
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Russell’s unruly ensemble comedy “Amsterdam,” a loony early-’30s social satire that goes cartwheeling through a little-remembered episode in American history when fascists tried to overthrow the U.
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The series was a satire exploring the typical life of office workers.
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“Never Swim Alone” is a swift, funny satire about two alpha males and their ruthless competition for the title of “Top Dog.
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The Broadway Beat Announces First-Ever 75th Annual Winter GalaDecember 6, 2022Theatre satire site The Broadway Beat has announced their first ever 75th Annual Winter Gala, taking place Friday December 30th at 7:00pm, in-person at Caveat on the lower east side and livestreaming online.
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Theatre satire site The Broadway Beat has announced their first ever 75th Annual Winter Gala, taking place Friday December 30th at 7:00pm, in-person at Caveat on the lower east side and livestreaming online.
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Ruben Östlund told Vanity Fair that he was inspired to make Triangle of Sadness, a satire of the rich and inept that kicks off with one character attempting to secure a modeling gig, when he met his wife, a fashion photographer, eight years ago.
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The latest addition to the “dark, transgressive Christmas movie” canon combines the subgenre’s greatest hits: It’s basically Die Hard meets Home Alone, combined with some of the eat-the-rich satire that’s dominating cinema at the moment with movies like Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, and Glass Onion.
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Mike has given the world an incredible work of humor and satire and I’m really grateful to be a part of that.
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Why it matters: Political parody and satire have deep historical roots in our nation’s free speech tradition.
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Tootsie (1982)
About as sweetly intentioned as satire can get, this tour de force with Dustin Hoffman as underemployed actor Michael Dorsey passing as soap opera phenom Dorothy Michaels earned 10 Oscar noms (but just one win, for Jessica Lange as supporting actress).
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The show finally got satire right .
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The role went to Gael Garcia Bernal, best known for playing Rodrigo De Souza in Prime Video’s classical music satire “Mozart in the Jungle.
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4 spot, “The Menu,” a dark satire from Searchlight Pictures, generated $3.
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I mean, this was the time of the whole ‘Blur: Are Shite’ controversy, wasn’t it?”)
Ellis’s 1998 novel is a dark satire of ’90s obsession with celebrity and consumerism.
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White Lotus — a quirky and dark satire on HBO — is nearing the end of its second season.
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Up first is the ad-industry satire Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957), which places its title credits over fake TV commercials that failed to deliver on what they promised.
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For the record, I welcome all readers, even those on whom satire is lost.
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satire Putney Swope.
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A satire of the wealthy classDetroit artist Mary-Ann Monforton will debut her newest show, “LUXE,” at noon Saturday at Birmingham’s David Klein Gallery.
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Compared to these films, the plot of De Caro’s new rom-com had a better scope to analyse human relationships with a touch of satire and some depth.
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Starring Chris Hemsworth in a decidedly not heroic role, the movie is an odd blend of philosophical science-fiction, psychological thriller, and dystopian satire.
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BoydThis poised and playful debut by three writers sharing a pseudonym is a sly satire on foodie culture and the modern hype machine.
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Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, the satire first took flight with a 2018 run at the Public Theater.
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"That's Robert Zemeckis paying homage to his friend, Steven Spielberg," Guadagnino says, "but at the same time, it's making a little satire about the tendency of this chain production machine that is Hollywood – that could be Hollywood.
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Directed by Rebecca Strum, the biting satire examines the reality (and perception) of bias, privilege, diversity and discrimination in higher education.
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There’s the satire “The Triangle of Sadness,” which could hardly do without, but there’s also “Tár,” a far more serious film that wouldn’t make the vomit hall of fame with Lydia Tár’s one fleeting gush.
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"The Boys continues to push boundaries in storytelling while also being relentlessly entertaining and threading the needle on social satire that feels all too real.
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Turning expectations of Kate on their head, she poked fun at herself in Ricky Gervais' fame satire Extras in 2005 which further endeared her to the British public.
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She played God in the 1999 Kevin Smith religious satire Dogma, and, in the early 2000s, appeared on episodes of the HBO comedies Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Website where claim originated says its content isn't 'true, real or accurate'The claim originated on The Mouse Trap, which describes itself as the "world’s best satire site"and a publisher of "fake stories about Disney Parks stuff.
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Look at this clip from the former Head Censor at Twitter:
Yoel Roth, who no longer works at Twitter, claims that satire is dangerous and that Libs of TikTok and The Babylon Bee are dangerous.
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The hot-headed Neville Landless and tempestuous Helena Landless, Shakil Azizi, and Niranjali Amerasinghe respectively, enraptured the gathering with their cultural satire and typical sibling hijinks.
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Ain't No Mo' is a satire about racism, American and Black culture, and more centered on the question: What if most Black Americans took a one-way plane trip to Africa?Get Cyber Monday Ain't No Mo' tickets now.
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She also raises the satire and absurdity several degrees, exaggerating characters’ personalities and predicaments.
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The result is a precise satire of rock biopics as a genre and the absurd liberties these films take with truth and time, particularly when it comes to the creative process.
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The series is known for presenting large amounts of down-home comedy uplifted by touches of broad satire and folksy warmth.
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