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What 18th-century satire famously targeted the inhumane treatment of Ireland's impoverished people?

satire

[sat-ahyuhr] / ˈsæt aɪər /


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Like them, you want the satire to make you feel smart, to make you feel like you’re one of the good guys?

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger” is a bizarre stunt made on a big studio budget, a climate change satire that’s a self-conscious hybrid of Stanley Kubrick and Bertolt Brecht.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The previous record of 13 was set just last year by Hollywood satire “The Studio,” also from Apple TV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Over in the comedy categories, Hollywood satire Hacks is predicted by many to continue its hugely successful Emmys streak following its fifth and final season.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

What Monteverdi’s Venetian audience understood was that this was a satire.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Even the best satires of the 21st century — “Idiocracy,” “Team America: World Police,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “Eddington” — initially stumbled at the box office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The latter film is one of Keaton’s lesser-known but still brilliantly limned stone-faced satires, in this case involving cowpokes and its star’s tender feelings for a milk cow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

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

Unlike most post-“Parasite” satires, “Common Side Effects” encourages its viewers to think about its themes in new and mystifying ways.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

In his turn, Ka'b ibn Zuhayr, who had passed his life in composing virulent satires against the Prophet, came to be converted by him, and recited a poem which he had written in his honour.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet




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