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

“Wake me up in a hundred years, ask me what is happening in Russia,” mused Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a 19th-century satirist, “and I’ll tell you with my usual frankness: We steal, we drink, we make war.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025

Sir Terry Pratchett must be considered to be a superb satirist, a brilliant, imaginative writer.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 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