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Recent Examples of satirist
Authoritarians historically come for the comics first, and most recently under Putin, satirist Idrak Mirzalizade was jailed and deported for mocking Russian housing.
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Lizz Winstead, Time, 27 Sep. 2025
The biographer who revived the reputation of our first Secretary of the Treasury—and incidentally launched a trillion amateur rap battles—set his sights on a beloved American satirist this year.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
After the political satirist used part of his Sunday show to blast Cain's recent decision to join the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the actor hit back, accusing the comedian of plagiarizing his jokes.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
But the famed satirist and mathematician, who died on July 26 at 97, wrote one of the first popular songs about a Jewish holiday.
—Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
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Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.—
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May Teng is an Indonesian-American writer and essayist based in Brooklyn.—
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Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.—
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An entire section of the Mad exhibit is devoted to movie and television show satires, the majority with art by master caricaturist Mort Drucker.—
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For extra literary merit, the screenplay was co-written by novelist Emma Donoghue, with director Philippa Lowthorpe.—
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And Henry's work also helped Kuang to visualize her own path as a novelist.—
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The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.—
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This gripping book about the short, daring life of the Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe makes an eloquent case for his work’s beauty and sly unorthodoxy.—
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Very funny, talented… an excellent impressionist.—
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The funniest part about that is Lisa Ann Walter is actually a really exceptional impressionist.—
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Paul Mescal, 29, stars as the popular playwright and poet.—
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Adapted by playwright David Farr from spy master John le Carré's 1993 novel of the same name, the April 2016 AMC series earned the Marvel Cinematic Universe star a Golden Globe for best actor in a limited series, and fueled discussion around Hiddleston as a potential James Bond.—
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Celebrate fresh voices and first-time storytellers making their mark by choosing a debut novel.—
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New York storyteller Laura Sims leads workshops and performs stories on Saturday and Sunday during the Atlanta Jewish Storytelling Festival at The Breman.—
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“Satirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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