Plenty of politicos write novels; but not many write eviscerating self-satires.
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Zink's satires are not restrained by the conventions of social politeness or narrative structure.
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But it has also been one of TV's sharpest satires of a changing city.
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But there's also the usual collection of thrillers, biopics, satires and straight-ahead dramas.
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In fact there are walls here covered with the satires and caricatures they attracted generally.
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Satires only serve to boost Mr Johnson's comedic capital and, with it, his political magnetism.
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Photos: Everette Collection National Lampoon 10 scathing political satires to stream this Fourth of July.
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Defying official bans, stinging satires about a fatuous new emperor have percolated through social media.
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I love how this entry just kisses Dorothy Parker's SATIRES, which runs down from 5.
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In reality its links are satires of clickbait, but good luck teaching that to a machine!
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Their broad satires have always tried to balance prestige drama ambitions with the juvenile fancies of teenagers.
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In effect, these photographic satires of advertising will become advertisements—part of Korea's collective beauty-driven dream.
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It's not all biography this week: Other subjects include evolution, financial crises and satires of millennial culture.
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The lineup also includes Hollywood satires like "The Player," which delights in blink-and-you'll-miss-them walk-ons.
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So hail the IFC Center for the series Autocratic for the People: An Unpresidented Series of Star-Spangled Satires.
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His satires on the absurdities of dictatorship, particularly 'Carnival Scenes' and 'The Oak,' are universal, ferocious and mordantly witty.
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Oscar-Ready: 2018 Nominees on Streaming From record-breaking satires to sci-fi sequels, now's your chance to catch up.
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Getty Images Christopher Buckley is known for his satires of American politics, including Little Green Men, Boomsday, and Supreme Courtship.
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How will Baron Cohen feel when a government orders the takedown of one of his satires across the entire internet?
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They made shadow puppets that lampooned political leaders, and enacted savage, sometimes obscene satires of the events of the day.
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For Paramount Pictures yesterday, that meant an assortment of different movies, from comedies and thrillers to clever, tongue-in-cheek satires.
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You can find it in Miley Cyrus's rebranding herself as a "happy hippie" or in satires of organic farms on Portlandia.
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How mysterious that a nation that produces this spectacle also invented one of the most potent satires ever committed to television.
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Mr. Demme became known early in his career for quirky social satires that led critics to compare him to Preston Sturges.
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Both are satires featuring underemployed, middle-aged New York Jewish protagonists with abandoned artistic dreams, cheating wives and snack-food obsessions.
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And while "Jojo Rabbit" becomes more emotional by its end, satires don't often make it to the top of the Oscar heap.
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Diane, wary but supportive, keeps writing for "Girl Croosh," one of the only clickbait blog satires that's ever truly made me laugh.
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As tender as it was cynical, it was a show about friendship and betrayal and loneliness — the "King Lear" of talk-show satires.
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But I'm really more familiar with the satires of them in the YouTube age, like 'Between Two Ferns' and that sort of thing.
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The more perceptive satires not only speak truth to power, but also interrogate the societies that enabled that power to move into place.
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His scenarios work as pointed satires, but they also have their own verisimilitude, glittering with finely imagined details, searing images, and profound, relatable emotions.
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Hiller directed more than 30 films from 1957 through 2006 covering a range of genres including comedies, dramas, tearjerkers, war stories, satires and musicals.
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Can a 21st-century writer of topical take-no-prisoners satires find happiness in the quaint but rollicking form of the 18th-century picaresque?
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The novel has inspired hundreds of other novels, films, television shows, radio programs, parodies, satires, songs, advertisements, toys, comics, video games and children's books.
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When Vanity Fair ran a breathlessly ripe profile of the actress Margot Robbie last week, sharp and scathing satires emerged on Twitter the same day.
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You could draw a line from it to insider satires like "30 Rock" and comedies, like "Louie," that blur the boundary between character and performer.
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He composed poems, satires and fine comic plays, notably "The Mandrake," which Voltaire praised for its anticlericalism and which still delights lovers of bawdy farce.
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The two satires The Hanging on Union Square by H.T. Tsiang and East Goes West by Younghill Kang, on the other hand, have much less cachet.
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That's a common tack for science fiction — particularly satires and dystopia stories, which poke fun at America's less-desirable elements, and challenge people to do better.
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The meeting from hell has been deliciously dissected on television satires like "The Office" and "W1A," BBC Two's blissful fictional portrait of life at the BBC.
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In picaresque fashion, Ms. Nottage (who likewise lives in Brooklyn) puts Undine through humiliations that mark her fall while serving as satires of familiar theatrical tropes.
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Hughes reads A Week of Kindness and its companion volumes as mordant satires of the piety and stuffy respectability of the artist's turn-of-the-century childhood.
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Just as raunchy comedies like "American Pie" were winning big at the box office, wry satires like "Office Space" fell through the cracks in the late '90s.
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These two films have both been described over the years as "dark comedies" or "dark social satires," I'd say more often than they've been described as horror films.
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At the universities, he addressed students of contemporary Arabic literature who knew of him as the author of a series of tragicomic plays, absurdist satires of Egyptian politics.
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Still others are producing parodies, comic books and satires, including a faux thriller titled "The Day of the Donald," which takes place two years into a Trump presidency.
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The Village Voice, Spy magazine and other publications made her the butt of satires, portraying her as an egocentric, mistake-prone partisan, using columns to promote her friends.
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There's quite a bit of work reproduced in Linda Goddard's "Savage Tales," though mostly of a kind we seldom see in museums: his illustrated journals, political satires and books.
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The Quad celebrates the impending 90th birthday of the photographer and filmmaker William Klein, who has worked in a range of modes — documentaries, satires and portraits of the fashion world.
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The shows became more focused on parodies and satires that riffed on television programs and middlebrow culture — and nurtured the sophisticated Nichols-May collaboration and Mr. Berman's stand-up routines.
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Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, George W. Bush (Remember Will Ferrell in "You're Welcome America"?) and Barack Obama have all been the subjects of theater satires while in office.
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These good-faith attempts at understanding a turning point for coming-of-age stories make it all the more disappointing to see satires as rudimentary as Friend Request or Tragedy Girls.
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Yan is routinely referred to as China's most controversial novelist, thanks to his scandalous satires about the brutalities of its Communist past and the moral nullity of its market-driven transformation.
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But none of these ideas are explored any better thanks to the horror movie context, or any more so than they already have been in dozens of other workplace comedies and satires.
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CEO Kaz Hirai, a parody account of actual Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, has consistently been one of the funniest satires of the games industry since the account was started six years ago.
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Mr. Iannucci, a writer of the film and the creator of the political satires "Veep" and "The Thick of It," grew up a fan of Monty Python and Mr. Palin in particular.
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A cryo-freeze commercial seen early in the film calls to mind the nod-and-wink of Paul Verhoeven social satires like RoboCop, while the persistent chatter of outside advertising inevitably recalls Blade Runner.
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The films, much like Black Mirror's dystopian satires of new technology, are part of what he calls a "visionary present" in which speculates about how existing and emerging technologies will reshape cities, cultures, and people.
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But the films are also cynical satires about the corruption and indifference of a government that's really out to secretly purge the most vulnerable members of society — predominantly poor and working-class people of color.
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Betty Thomas's 1995 parody of the venerable TV family is one of the sharpest screen satires of its decade, a simultaneous send-up of traditional family values and a celebration of why cheesy television matters.
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"This is a beastly business," someone in that same room might have joked, not knowing that they were signing up one of the most unsparing and rigorous satires about the entertainment industry since Sunset Boulevard.
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In the years since, this mixing of meta and musicals has given us whole new levels of integrated musical performances, in everything from Coen Brothers' films to Netflix satires to Crazy Ex Girlfriend's entire existence.
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At second glance, however, one realizes that Tingle's books are serving as tongue-in-cheek satires of real kink-driven fiction on Amazon, a crowded category brimming with unironic stories about erotic fetishes of every kind.
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In the American phase of his career, Mr. Verhoeven, who started out in the Netherlands, was a blockbuster sleight-of-hand artist, disguising pungent, politically tinged satires as noisy sci-fi action movies and overheated potboilers.
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Mr. Capaldi, the Scottish actor (and star of the political satires "The Thick of It" and "In the Loop"), said in January that the current season, which begins Saturday on BBC America, will be his last.
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His films can't be easily categorized; they include ethnographic studies ("Shaki," in Program 222, on Sunday), satires ("Le Retour d'Un Aventurier," in Program 7183, on Saturday) and stop-motion animation ("Kokoa," in Program 2718, on Sunday).
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It's just a mystery novel starring these two well known characters, who just happen to be in the public domain," said Mr. Shaffer, who has written cheeky satires like "The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America.
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Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor best known for assuming false identities as the title characters of the satires "Borat" and "Bruno," plays a man who himself is assuming a false identity in this six-part mini-series.
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This puts a premium on the start and end of the set, and two of the highlights are satires of a certain hackneyed genre of opening and closing jokes that poke fun at convention while also subverting it.
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In the context of "our current crisis of faith in institutions and culture," Lawler's photographs of artworks in private homes, museums, and auction houses seemed less like the formal exercises or social satires they once appeared to be.
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Black Mirror has always done darkly funny satires, like the debut episode "The National Anthem," and season two's "The Waldo Moment," which has gained terrifying new layers since Donald Trump's improbable ascent to the top of the Republican Party.
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The best comedies on TV this year posed serious questions, but they weren't, by traditional standards, all that funny: Of the eight nominees vying for Outstanding Comedy Series at next Monday's Emmy Awards, only three felt like textbook satires.
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The political satire to end all political satires, Stanley Kubrick's black-and-white Cold War comedy is much more colorful from a narrative perspective—and hasn't lost any of its bite in the more than half-century since its release.
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It's a strange way of humanizing them, pulling away their universalist pretensions, like the pornographic satires of the French Revolution, or the inherent republicanism in the fact that sometimes the Queen of England has to use the toilet like everyone else.
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"No one expects the lady code troll" — thus began Jenn Schiffer's rollicking presentation about her series of Medium satires, which make absurd arguments about software development that bait men — and it is almost always men — into rageful fits of mansplaining.
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One great joy of the Scottish director Armando Iannucci's string of political satires — the BBC series "The Thick of It," the film "In the Loop" and the HBO series "Veep," now in its sixth season — is its characters' relationship with language.
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It would take the brilliancy of Sondheim, especially in the lyrics — Hwang's are bare-bones, devoid of panache — to pull off the necessary double act here: to succeed as worthy successors to the originals and satires of them at the same time.
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Ian Woodfield's new book, " Cabals & Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna ," identifies the true operatic villain of Josephine Vienna: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, a second-tier composer whose posthumous reputation rests mainly on his concertos for underserved instruments (oboe, viola, double-bass).
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That place is now California, which is not to say that nobody writes about the South (Jesmyn Ward, Ron Rash, Jamie Quatro) or that edgy irreality from the West Coast is some kind of recent phenomenon (see: Nathanael West's searing satires from the 1930s).
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I was surprised that the curators selected, for the political room, "The Three Graces: Art, Sex and Death" (214), a candy-colored send-up of a classical theme by Robert Colescott, rather than one of the artist's many trenchant and disquieting satires on race.
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Yet, as the art historian Yomi Ola writes in her book " Satires of Power in Yoruba Visual Culture ," Lasekan, in his critique of British rule, drew on a Yoruba tradition of using satire, in the form of masks and statues, to call out bad behavior.
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You're churning out companies that are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, and going bankrupt in literal satires of themselves: a $700 million blood-testing company that never had any actual results; a $403 million juicer with packets that can actually be squeezed by hand.
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Writing in his 70s and 80s, he produced for the Flea a series of vigorous and fanciful satires about the state of his nation, which were written and produced quickly enough to feel as topical as the headlines on the days of their performances.
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The sky above the blank-eyed creature is reminiscent of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893), but the painting also refers to works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the satires of François Rabelais, in which bucolic landscapes are occupied or marred by destructive humans.
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As HBO's critically lauded comedy Veep is often hailed as one of the most accurate political satires the entertainment industry has ever produced, it was only a matter of time before the Internet would find a way to blend the show with the current presidential administration.
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There's a superhero film, two political satires (one set in an 20183th-century royal court and one set in the White House), a movie about infiltrating the KKK, a classic Hollywood remake, a classic Hollywood feel-good buddy comedy, a rocker biopic, and a sweeping domestic drama.
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There's a superhero film, two political satires (one set in an 18th-century royal court and one set in the White House), a movie about infiltrating the KKK, a classic Hollywood remake, a classic Hollywood feel-good buddy comedy, a rocker biopic, and a sweeping domestic drama.
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Swift's tales of these encounters, and subsequent ones with the virtuous Houyhnhnms and odious Yahoos, were in fact satires designed to remind his contemporaries that the world is not "just what we are told it is on our own bit of earth…no civilisation has a freehold on 'normality'".
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There's a superhero film, two political satires (one set in an 18th-century royal court and one set in the White House), a movie about infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, a classic Hollywood remake, a classic Hollywood feel-good buddy comedy, a rocker biopic, and a sweeping domestic drama.
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Badiucao, a 33-year-old China-born cartoonist and artist who has drawn comparisons to graffiti artist Banksy, said he could no longer remain in the shadows despite threats from China's security apparatus prompted by biting satires that poke fun at Beijing's leaders and their perceived abuse of power.
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Writing nights and weekends, on trains, planes and sometimes in the office, Mr. Lehrer churned out a novel almost every year for more than two decades: spy thrillers, political satires, murder mysteries and series featuring One-Eyed Mack, a lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, and Charlie Henderson, a C.I.A. agent.
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Type "New York movies" into a search engine and you will open up a cinematheque as vast and varied as the city itself, containing multitudes: crime stories; romantic comedies; tales of immigrant striving and racial conflict; of cruel poverty and impossible wealth; swooning musicals; acid-etched satires; dystopian fantasies.
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A sports fan who roots for the New York Yankees, the Connecticut native says his down time includes watching documentaries, reading satires by Voltaire and other writers who "don't make people laugh today because they don't have the right language," and going to dinner with a tight circle of friends.
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This is the woman, after all, who threw herself on the ground at Kimye's feet, regularly discusses the finer points of her sex life and her secrets to preventing thigh chafe in front of audiences of thousands, and writes scathing satires and musical numbers about dismantling the patriarchy brick by brick.
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For its first couple of seasons, The Boondocks — which follows two young black kids from the city who move in with their grandfather in the suburbs — was one of the most incisive TV satires around, thanks to the sharp writing of Aaron McGruder and a terrific cast of vocal performers.
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Both plays are acid-etched satires of a certain type of middle- or upper-middle-class white gay man, often working or aiming to work in something creative, as he descends into whirlwinds of booze- and drug-fueled introspection and recrimination during a social event (a Palm Springs gay wedding in the earlier show).
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While it was still happening, the only way audiences could acknowledge the absurdity of what we were going through was by reaching backward, viewing satires set in Korea (M*A*S*H*, 1970) and World War II (Catch-22, also 1970.) And so it is with Trump and one of our era's greatest satirists, Armando Iannucci.
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Although "The Producers" is an obvious inspiration for "Jojo Rabbit" — some of the film's detractors call it a feature-length version of "Springtime for Hitler" — as well as Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and Ernst Lubitsch's "To Be or Not to Be," it has more recent referents as well, particularly the brilliant absurdist political satires of Armando Iannucci.
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But in this era in which a reality show host is the leader of the free world and Sylvester Stallone and Kim Kardashian are helping the White House make decisions on presidential pardons, it feels as if the most appropriate way to celebrate America this July 4th is by marathoning some of Hollywood's most scathing (and sometimes prophetic) political satires.
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CRAWFORD It was not so much one person as a series of artists working in the U.K. in the 1980s on a comic book called "2000 AD." It was subversive, countercultural and punky, and used near-future and science-fiction stories as blackly humorous satires of contemporary events: in particular Thatcher's Britain, the Cold War and the very real prospect of nuclear holocaust.
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As he read more of it, he was stunned to discover a huge and diverse body of literature — works that ranged from hard sci-fi, surreal horror and cyberpunk to dystopian alternate histories, political satires and chuanyue time-travel tales, a popular sub-subgenre in which a modern-day protagonist is transported back in time, often to a Chinese dynastic period.
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Where many once wrote celebrity death hoaxes or "satires," they now run entire, successful websites that do nothing but troll convenient minorities or exploit gross stereotypes … There's Now8News, which runs outrageous crime stories next to the stolen mugshots of poor, often black, people; or World News Daily Report, which delights in inventing items about foreigners, often Muslims, having sex with or killing animals.
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In The Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote about St. Aubyn's "remarkable" series: "The books are written with an utterly idiosyncratic combination of emotional precision, crystalline observation and black humor, as if one of Evelyn Waugh's wicked satires about British aristos had been mashed up with a searing memoir of abuse and addiction, and injected with Proustian meditations on the workings of memory and time."
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Sending up the 247s detective movie craze, Mr. Simon wrote this broad satire of the Agatha Christie-style manor mystery with an all-star cast (including Peter Sellers, David Niven, Peter Falk, Maggie Smith, Eileen Brennan, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco and Nancy Walker) playing satires of such classic characters as Charlie Chan, Miss Marple, Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot, and Nick and Nora Charles.
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Whether on barstools in the hyper-exclusive "speakeasy" clubs, or standing in a three-hour queue for a table at Rose's Luxury, or tittering like adolescents at the celebrities who annually grace the White House Correspondents' Dinner with their godly presence, or gazing as one into the Narcissus pool of Twitter feeds, the Washington elite with its undisguised self-absorption provides a bounty for "Veep" and other TV satires.
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If I were a Warner exec and I was looking at Lego Movie money (and now Lego Batman money, after it topped the box office its opening weekend), I'd definitely be looking at The Lego Movie Sequel in terms of wondering what new spinoff-worthy characters could be introduced, and not just which Lego franchises would make solid satires, but which franchises could be picked up for Lego expansion, with the promise of movie spinoffs and endless built-in merchandising.
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In "Straight Man," the novel that followed "Nobody's Fool" in 1997, and which remains one of the great academic satires of all time, right up there with Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" and Francine Prose's "Blue Angel," Russo showed us a comic sensibility with much sharper edges — but that novel was narrated in the first person, while the current book's method is to open up the perspective and dig deeply into the hearts and minds of its large cast of characters, some of whom are less deserving of that attention than others.
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