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While that notion may be true for some, it’s not universal, and Iñárritu’s haughty assumption only reflects how disconnected “Digger” is from the very reality it presumes to understand well enough to satirize.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 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

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

“Family Guy” began as the brainchild of Seth MacFarlane, now 50, who imbued the show with its pop-cultural bona fides, iconic musical numbers and a desire to satirize every social convention that Americans hold sacred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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

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

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

Where Season 3 played with tropes of the theater, the current series satirizes, or self-satirizes, movies and movie actors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2024

Would you say this movie not only satirizes white Americans, but also Black Americans?

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

We all remember the account of Adam which satirizes woman, but eulogizes her if every second and third line be transposed.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith

One of them, “The Scooby-Doo Project,” satirized “The Blair Witch Project” with Scooby and his gang venturing into the woods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Ed Park’s debut, ‘Personal Days,’ satirized office culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025

Dave Barry’s “Ask Mr. Language Person” satirized their typical advisory: writing tip for professionals: To make your writing more appealing to the reader, avoid “writing negatively.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

David Lindsay-Abaire’s “The Balusters” is a piquant comedy satirizing the hollowness and hypocrisy of well-to-do do-gooders on a neighborhood homeowners association board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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