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General stores sell figurines that satirize social media-obsessed tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

Just two years after “Cruise” debuted, duo Maddie & Tae had heard enough about arm candy and daisy dukes to satirize the subgenre’s views on women with 2015’s “Girl in a Country Song.”

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

The essayist’s power lies in his willingness to satirize the inherent absurdity of life without ever downplaying what it means to be human.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 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

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

Eminem’s latest satirizes the culture wars tying the nation up in knots — as well as his participation in them.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

Sennott and Edebiri deliver two of the funniest performances of the year, while Seligman savagely satirizes the teen movie genre that has reflected and shaped our cultural understanding of young women.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Its titular star, who plays a version of himself and satirizes talk shows by putting unsuspecting celebrity guests through hellish interviews, has become considerably more famous since the series first aired over a decade ago.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2023

Erasmus, quoted, upon the monks, 66, 71; detested by Luther, 75; satirizes women, 181, 182.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

The move was likely in the works before the latest kerfuffle over Kimmel, who is under fire for a comedic bit that satirized the annual Washington gala that Trump attended for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 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

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

The rest of the Continental Congress balks, naturally, but the idea of the routine is far less about satirizing America than shoehorning Mr. David’s familiar shtick into an assortment of faux-historic scenarios.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

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