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“Idiocracy,” on the other hand, was as cheap as the mid-aughts culture it was setting out to satirize.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

But in her novel, rather than satirize or steamroll, Shriver takes her open-armed and open-borders characters as seriously and empathetically as her anti-immigration ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

“Heart Eyes” has two goals: satirize romantic comedies and squeeze the dregs from slasher clichés.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

The fourth deals with a witch, giving them a chance to satirize conspiracy theorists.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

As an art-house film that satirizes American culture through the lens of a non-American like Inarritu, "Digger" was perhaps destined to be a heavy lift.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

HBO’s “I Love LA” satirizes the Los Angeles entertainment industry, with influencers, nepo-babies and the rich and famous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

A recent show most analogous to “Expats” is “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s HBO dramedy which satirizes the lives of privileged white tourists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Lazarus' whole being satirizes the obscene extremes to which method actors go.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023

His vaudeville, "Love on the Nicholas Tower," which satirizes the drama of chivalry, is in the same vein and made a similar hit.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Our critic said that in it influencer culture “is satirized with savage wit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

The policing techniques satirized in the film may be futuristic, but its structure is fusty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Scott Adams, the ‘Dilbert’ cartoonist who satirized a certain kind of workplace culture for more than 30 years before comments on race led to publishers cutting ties with him, has died at 68.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026

As the Bulwark’s Will Sommer reported on X, some cheeky progressive satirized this by mocking up a fake poster for TPUSA’s halftime show, which promised Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and “a Guest Appearance by Measles.”

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

Swift had written this squib by 1697, and by the time it appeared the conflict it satirized appeared to be over.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

I didn’t want to live in a world of satirizing this guy forever.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

This time, we’re seeing the actor’s answer to “The Studio,” only instead of satirizing the industry’s artistically cheapening franchise obsession, it warns of the full extinction of originality by way of ChatGPT.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2026

Jared Keeso stars in this “Letterkenny” spinoff satirizing performative masculinity among a small-town Canadian hockey team.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

In the days since he announced it—anonymously—Kauffman has been accused of having a “peasant feudal lord mindset” and satirizing the city’s posture toward the tech industry and its leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

Eventually Threpe was called up onto the stage where he sang a scathing little ditty of his own design, satirizing one of Tarbean’s councilmen.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss