satire

The dark satire “The Audacity,” which is about an ambitious founder’s increasingly toxic and boundary-shattering relationship with his therapist, became a hit for the basic-cable network AMC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

His latest map manoeuver has sparked anger in Canada -- and satire.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Then, in 1980, she made her film debut in 9 to 5, a dark satire about women's rights in the workplace helped by Jane Fonda.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“It’s good-humored without being comedy or satire but opens serious friendly discussions about contemporary problems,” reader Christine Almeida writes of the novel that won the 2021 National Book Award for fiction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

In Wharton and Howells, on the other hand, there is frequently an edge of satire, and sometimes a hint of seismic rumble.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

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

But his satires have infiltrated the lexicon of American popular culture precisely because their humor is rooted in a desire to subvert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2023

His Cinœdi were malicious and indecent satires and travesties of mythology written in Ionic dialect and in a peculiar metre.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various