Each issue satirizes and takes down a different societal convention.
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Bernhard satirizes American culture, celebrity, politics, political correctness and the entertainment business.
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"Parks and Recreation" satirizes what it's like to work in a park system.
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Starring Zach Woods as Jared, the show satirizes startup culture in the California tech bubble.
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I also liked MAMA BEAR, SPEED DATING, SATIRIZES, BAD DEAL, ME TIME, and RIG VEDA.
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Can we always tell the difference between a mocking costume and one that satirizes ignorance?
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Even a Twitter account that satirizes the Chinese government's propaganda efforts got into the act.
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Not afraid of corrupting the "sacred," Rozliubit also satirizes the links between commerce, religion, and sexuality.
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Case in point: the clever and colorful Albert in Blunderland, which savagely satirizes excessive government oversight.
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Mr. Fernandes thus satirizes the popular fantasy of African art as a symbol of primitive authenticity.
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BE FOR REAL removes the pretense and satirizes how [people] see the game with [these] scratch tickets.
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It is a charming, peculiar movie, singular in its vision even as it satirizes widespread social conventions.
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The show expertly satirizes the communal experience of living in a body that others treat like shit.
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That's according to Jessica Powell, a former Google employee whose novel, "The Big Disruption," satirizes the industry.
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The book touches briefly on racial discrimination in Silicon Valley but mainly satirizes the industry's treatment of women.
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Or take the Tropico series, which satirizes banana republics while still being an independently entertaining construction management sim.
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Like "Los Olvidados," if far more gently, "Illusion" satirizes Mexican cinema's conventionally sentimental view of the urban poor.
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This is really the essence of totalitarianism, and The Death of Stalin satirizes the hell out of it.
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" Goomics," a new book that satirizes the company's corporate culture, may provide the right amount of comic relief.
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The only thing sexual about McKinnon's Clinton is her libidinous political ambitions, which McKinnon champions even as she satirizes.
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Controversy surrounding a cartoon is nothing new for the newspaper, which regularly satirizes the political establishment, religion and nationalism.
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Mr. Franco satirizes some of pop culture's most memorable TV shows, movies and music videos in 10-minute shorts.
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Image: APThe winners of the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize—an annual contest that satirizes ridiculous science—have been announced.
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And this makes the Strike series rather revealing for who it satirizes, who it attacks, and who it admires.
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But fans have long enjoyed the web series "Got2BReal" which satirizes the relationships between some of black music's biggest stars.
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The show exposes and satirizes its formula by proving that it's not the crime that transfixes viewers but the investigation.
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Mr. Shawn also satirizes the chatter common to a certain intellectual-liberal milieu as we hear snippets from cocktail conversations.
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" Teva Harrison, 37 when given a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, satirizes treatment in a graphic memoir, "In-Between Days.
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"A Woman of No Importance," which satirizes upper-class society, premiered in April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
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His "A Closer Look" segment, which appears on the show almost nightly, satirizes political scandals and difficult or misunderstood political issues.
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On his new album, "Physical Whisper," Mr. Gondelman satirizes the critique of children ruined by their parents' obsession with self-esteem.
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And that's before you factor in that its sequel satirizes the internet, where the targets of parody change literally every hour.
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But "Cute Activist," produced by the Starr along with New Saloon, in association with Clubbed Thumb, represents (and satirizes) nonhipsters too.
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Titled "Trump's Russian Congress," the YouTube clip satirizes the president's close ties to Russia and his alleged sexual exploits with Russian women.
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Easily the funniest artist in the exhibition, Samantha Nye satirizes the misogynistic Scopitone videos of the 1960s from a feminist-queer perspective.
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"The Grinder" smartly satirizes legal dramas, as Lowe's character tries to apply to actual cases what he has learned as an actor.
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Zink satirizes average-to-privileged people in the manner of Jane Austen, but her books are too short to run to social commentary.
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Their video "Alia Bhatt -- Genius of the Year", which satirizes public perceptions of the Bollywood actress, has been viewed over 12.3 million times.
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In the first version he calls the Japanese servants "muso," which translates as "mug" or "snout"; snubs Japanese food; and satirizes Japanese customs.
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In the Loop satirizes the inefficiency of government by looping the American relationship with Britain into the story and making the stakes very high.
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Or, for Nordic noir diehards who are looking for something a little different, try Fallet, a dry Swedish comedy that subtly satirizes the genre.
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Known for his witty artistic commentary on Instagram, Saint Hoax satirizes viral moments in American culture through kaleidoscopic pop references and twisted Disney imagery.
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Portia is a self-obsessed actress, and Hagner's portrayal brilliantly satirizes the archetype of the narcissistic millennial while infusing the character with unexpected warmth.
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Liz Magic Laser, in her brilliantly hilarious single-channel video, "The Thought Leader" (2015), satirizes the free-market ideology at the heart of neoliberalism.
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The series satirizes the absurdity of a world where underqualified judges, proudly bigoted politicians, and "the pee tape" are part of the daily discourse.
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In them she satirizes, mocks and sometimes fillets the wellness industry, its relentless marketing and "the commodification of yoga," as Ms. Auder calls it.
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The comedy website Reductress, which satirizes women's magazines and blogs, presents this night of stand-up, hosted by Nicole Silverberg, an editor at large.
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"Jeff Zucker needs a book that satirizes cable news like a hole in the head right now," she said, as the room cracked up.
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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.
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Although Ms. Masilo's version, to a collage combining Tchaikovsky and contemporary music, establishes a carnival atmosphere and satirizes balletic conventions, it focuses on sexual politics.
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Banksy's identity has never been revealed, but his subversive murals, sculptures and ironic epigrams have become highly sought after in the establishment world he satirizes.
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The parody, which quickly shot to the top of Amazon's bestseller list before selling out, satirizes Charlotte Pence's book about her family's rabbit, Marlon Bundo.
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One of my personal favorites, BodegaBot, inspired by the Bodega fiasco of late 2017, satirizes Silicon Valley's unhinged desire to replace domestic service with technology.
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But Puppies Puppies wryly satirizes selfie culture by highlighting a viral image too gross, embarrassing, and fetishized to want to be in a photo with.
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DEAR COMMITTEE MEMBERS, by Julie Schumacher, satirizes university life from the point of view of a has-been writer and current creative writing professor, Jason Fitger.
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Here he is in the truly weird movie American Dreamz, which satirizes American Idol and in which Dennis Quaid plays the president of the United States. Cute!
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The sinister tangos with the madcap in "Ideation," a comedy that satirizes office politics and skewers groupthink, even as its annihilation scenario comes to seem unsettlingly plausible.
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In her new work "Half-Heard," supported by the CUNY Dance Initiative and John Jay College, she takes on gender stereotypes and satirizes social expectations of femininity.
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The show, which has won 32 Emmy awards and was nominated for an Oscar in the animated short category in 2012, often playfully and poignantly satirizes American culture.
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The book satirizes the many ways making plans for big celebrations — the kind in which heightened emotions, complex logistics and considerable expenses collide — easily gets out of hand.
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This raises of the question of how one satirizes a fetish community where women pretend to be scammers pretending to be women (or, in this case, an animated fish).
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But although the ad is definitely an insult, (and, unfortunately, satirizes him for being "pretty") it takes a while to make the point, and is perhaps too inside baseball.
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The soldiers are from that reddest of red states, Texas; among its other aims, Mr. Pelsue's play, crisply directed by Lee Sunday Evans, slyly satirizes the country's increasing polarization.
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Such has been the path of "Mans Not Hot," the grime parody by Big Shaq, a character of the comedian Michael Dapaah, who lovingly and keenly satirizes grime culture.
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Half of the students used Twitter to analyze "The Late Mattia Pascal," the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction.
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Kaling's script not only satirizes the boys' club that has long dominated the comedy world but smartly illustrates how a writers' room can thrive by introducing new points of view.
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In his latest cutting speculative parable, fast-rising SF writer Russell Nichols satirizes techno-optimism, the ways tech is deployed in the service of 'combatting' racism, and much more. Enjoy.
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This is the experience of an art-history nerd watching Bojack Horseman, the critically acclaimed animated comedy series and cult hit on Netflix that brutally satirizes Hollywood, or rather, Hollywoo.
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In fact, I'd venture to say Crazy Rich Asians works so well precisely because Kwan has that insider perspective: Instead of ogling at the wealthy, like we do, he satirizes them.
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Overall, 'The Politician' deftly satirizes our political climate — and uses its lack of authenticity to its advantage While "The Politician" isn't perfect, it's definitely Ryan Murphy's best new comedy to date.
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Via Pokemon Go Association Related: 'Pokémon GO' Simulation Satirizes Spurious Gameplay Dark Political Cartoons Show How Technology Is Our New Master I'm the First (and Maybe Final) Professional 'Pokémon GO' Trainer
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The use of gold satirizes not just American values but references a long discourse about the vanity of wealth, the belief of rich people that everything they do is transmogrified by money.
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"Crazy Rich Asians" is based on a novel by Kevin Kwan that satirizes Singapore's megarich, and the film's trailer oozes with luxury cars, opulent parties and other trappings of the One Percent.
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The heightened concern over mass shootings in schools is something Dave Chappelle satirizes in his controversial new Netflix stand-up special that highlights a harsh truth about America's relationship with gun control.
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Take the awkward scraping the side of the ship scene, which satirizes the incredibly long panning scene of the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Motion Picture by adding an awkward screech of metal.
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In one novel, "Thinner Than Thou" (2004), she satirizes a modern preoccupation with body image; in "The Night Children" (20133), runaway children live in a shopping mall and come out only at night.
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"Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho's previous movie, the 2017 Netflix original "Okja," satirizes animal cruelty within the food industry by telling the story of a South Korean girl separated from her giant pet pig.
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The piece satirizes Trump and Putin by analogizing their relationship with a famous work of art on the Berlin wall, depicting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker sharing a kiss.
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Oliver, host of a weekly show on HBO that analyzes and satirizes the news, discussed Hoffman's statement while moderating a panel to mark the 20th anniversary of the film "Wag the Dog," starring Hoffman.
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If that means that "The Prom" trades in some of the same cheesy mawkishness it satirizes, that's O.K. Cheese has always been part of the American recipe — and rarely hurt the apple pie underneath.
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Student activist Cameron Kasky -- one of the survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- appreciates "South Park" ... even when it satirizes the tragedies he and way too many other kids have gone through.
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Like the best of the stories it satirizes so gently, it's rollicking good fun on the surface, action-packed and shiny in all the right places; underneath that surface, though, it's thoughtful and well considered.
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Ben Platt, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Zoey Deutch star on the show, which cleverly satirizes high school politics and American politics, and focuses on Payton as he tries his best to win his high school's election.
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Many of Instagram's socialist meme pages share a DIY aesthetic that subverts and satirizes the hegemony of mega meme culture and its typical aesthetic format—black text on a white background above a photo or tweet.
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It's more like a drama, refracted through a fun house mirror, with good acting and well-developed story undermined and thus made better by comedy that satirizes the ridiculousness of the corporate world and the ultra-rich.
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It's a meta-romantic comedy tale about a young woman who wants to write romance tales, and both satirizes and indulges in telenovela tropes: accidental pregnancies, long-lost fathers, double-crossing blackmailers, evil twins and shocking deaths.
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If Carroll's nonsense satirizes the rise of philosophical idealism and the university, mocking people who think for a living and end up with absurd results, Lear's is a mockery of Victorian natural science, particularly the life sciences.
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An American Pilot, a Muslim Teenager and a Talking Dog All Caught in an Absurd War "Red Birds," a new novel by the Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif, satirizes America's never-ending military conflicts in the Middle East.
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Where to Watch: Hiding in a closet while avoiding your boss at work This British comedy series about the titular IT department of a major corporation satirizes how self-described "standard nerds" fit into the overall corporate structure.
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It's a slow burn, realizing Georgeson's conceit as Webber, but once you catch on, it's hard not to recognize what he's accomplished—namely, that he satirizes nearly every trope, pattern, or theme you've likely seen on social media.
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We Go to the Gallery, available on Amazon, $10.42This parody of a 1960s children's book satirizes what it's like to bring kids to an art gallery — explaining contemporary art and existential dread with keywords displayed at the bottom.
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You might start by spying on forum drama, like a strained artistic collaboration between a would-be hacker and a creepypasta author or an ironic subculture called "coolpunk" that's getting co-opted by the slick brands it satirizes.
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The 71-year-old, who has long campaigned to increase reading and literacy, read lines out of Roald Dahl's "Television," which satirizes the impact of the screen on kids, at White Rose Primary School in New Tredegar, South Wales.
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This new production — the first to be written by the students of the Harlem School of the Arts Theater Alliance — satirizes television news programs, infotainment and social media as it explores an irresistible topic: the presidential election of 2016.
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In a seven-episode series launching on cable channel Showtime on Sunday, the British prankster takes on four different personas as he satirizes the political and cultural life of the United States in the era of President Donald Trump.
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Written by Mindy Kaling (who also co-stars), the movie satirizes sexism in the broadcasting industry through a story that sees Thompson's character joining forces with her new writer (played by Kaling) to try and reinvigorate her strained career.
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It's also worth seeking out Payne and Taylor's 1996 debut feature, Citizen Ruth, which satirizes the abortion debate via the story of a wastrel (hilariously played by Laura Dern) who becomes a national cause célèbre after she gets pregnant.
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For example, "Ballad of the Dying Man," which satirizes the often overstated point of view of any one of the white males who offer endless commentary of cable news or engage in the never-ending battles of social media warriors.
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Well, FXX's bold and bawdy anti-rom-com You're the Worst began its fifth and final season with an episode that both satirizes the romantic comedy tropes it has always juggled, while also acknowledging how indebted it has always been to those tropes.
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The episode parodies and satirizes everything from commercials aimed at black audiences to the ways cable discussion programs often turn into grueling deathmatch arguments at the drop of a hat (though in this case the guests eventually team up on the host).
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In "Anonymous Intimacy," Mr. Temer's choice to occasionally err on the side of concision led Sensacionalista, a website that satirizes Brazil's political class, to question whether the author of some of the verses might actually be his 7-year-old son, Michelzinho.
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In "Wrong Move," an updated version of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" written by Peter Handke, Mr. Vogler plays a petulant would-be poet whose search for a utopian unity of poetry and politics telescopes, even as it satirizes, two centuries of German Romanticism.
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Zappa satirizes everything from Scientology ("A Token of My Extreme") and Catholicism ("Catholic Girls") to the sexual revolution ("Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" and relies heavily on xenochrony for the record, overdubbing most of his guitar solos from earlier live recordings.
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In Peele's work with Key (and with their fellow MadTV co-star Bobby Lee) he explores the eccentricities and hallmarks of the fight-loving lifestyle that the uninitiated either don't grasp or haven't even considered and satirizes them without ever condemning or dismissing them.
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It's not easy to turn a topic as potentially volatile as the so-called "n-word" into comedy, but Black-ish figured out a way to do just that, in an episode that gently satirizes and makes fun of all of our cultural conversations on the topic.
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What's hot: The show's storyline and pacing are spot-on, and Ben Platt gives a sensitive but show-stopping performance as Payton"The Politician" is, first and foremost, a high school drama, but it also satirizes the American political system and tackles big issues like suicide and gun control.
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Presumably, when it was announced over the summer that Stephen Colbert was planning a special, live election-night broadcast on Showtime, the expectation was that he would riff on a once-in-a-lifetime political event, as momentous as anything he regularly satirizes as host of "The Late Show" on CBS.
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There's no unified original style that makes Stone Fang Island seem like an independent fantasy world, and it rarely satirizes or examines its sources of inspiration, leaving only a collage of tropes that were once used to depict groups of people as subhuman, even if they're not being used that way here.
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They both appear with Mr. Watts in a mock sitcom, "Crowe's Nest," that is woven throughout the special With its cheesy theme song and laugh track, "Crowe's Nest" satirizes 1970s television ("Improvised in front of a live studio audience"), but this comedy isn't so much mocking the world as creating its own.
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Along the way he wrote an acclaimed novel, "High Cotton," published in the early 1990s, a kind of postmodern bildungsroman in which the unnamed narrator, raised amid the black bourgeoisie of Indianapolis, dabbles in, satirizes, but most often simply avoids the various identities that his family, on the one hand, and a dominant white culture, on the other, are eager to slot him into.
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"Oh Bejeweled Realm" satirizes the pretensions of both Iran's Westernizing regime and its middle-class intellectuals: Tomorrow I can, In the backroom of Khachick's shop, Snort a few grams of some of the purest stuff, Swill a few glasses of mixed-up Pepsi-Cola, Give out a few oh Gods, and Hallelujahs, haw-haws, aha-aha-aha, And formally join the ranks of high-minded thinkers and an asinine Enlightenment.
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