satire

That the humor is farcical and dull, with a clangingly loud sound mix backing the clangingly obvious satire, seems intentional.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

"Erdogan should be open to the art of satire," he said, denying the charges against him and saying none of Turkey's most famous comedians or political satirists had been prosecuted in the past.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 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

“Widow’s Bay” occasionally flirts with satire, but it settles down with self-aware sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Some brilliant satire on the decadent Old South being cast before the unaware swine in the Night of Joy audience.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

But Verhoeven’s Hollywood films are all satires of one aspect of American life or another.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 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

His 1964 apocalyptic Cold War comedy Dr Strangelove will be staged by Armando Iannucci, who is known for TV political satires The Thick of It and Veep.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023

Amid an enormous mass of occasional verses, anagrams, epigrams, impromptus and the like, his satires and serious poems were almost buried.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various