At "The Daily Show," we were satirizing a news program.
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There's no juice left in satirizing an already absurd situation.
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It's me satirizing my disproportionate passion for the entertainment industry.
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Giselle is for horror fans, satirizing themes of death and vampires.
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Satirizing the evils of politics doesn't mean speakers can solve them.
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The program's fake bios bring on some chuckles by satirizing Russian ballerinas.
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Twitter users have also fought back by satirizing the false assault claims.
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How do you satirize the Internet when it's self-satirizing, you know?
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It moved on to satirizing online political discourse with PatriotHole and ResistanceHole.
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She does commendable work both satirizing, and also fulfilling, a sexist conception.
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This tweet was part of a string of tweets satirizing Trump enablers.
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Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat had his hands broken for satirizing President Assad.
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The series is known for satirizing figures from the media and literary worlds.
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Some critique indirectly, as in, say, the femininity-satirizing works of Sarah Lucas.
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In satirizing an Asian-American stereotype, I was feeding into an African-American one.
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Dina Litovsky does a great job peeking in without satirizing or overdramatizing the situation.
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Romero used his zombie films comment on society, satirizing everything from consumerism to politics.
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Degas is wickedly precise; you feel he's satirizing a leap that really did happen.
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" The plates, however, are actually ornately disguised scratch tickets satirizing the practice of art "flipping.
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As a guideline, if the people you're satirizing aren't mad, then you should dig deeper.
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"I like to consider these prints as satirizing male ambition and competitiveness," Mr. McCracken said.
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This film manages the delicate feat of embracing its source material while also satirizing it.
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Deadpool and his writer and artist are satirizing that, but still getting the point across.
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Candy herself is no feminist paragon; no one escapes satirizing in this bracing commedia dell'arte.
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Tabloid covers plant her figures in an absurdist discourse, satirizing the politicization of trans bodies.
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PewDiePie released a video satirizing the new system with a comparison to, of course, Nazi Germany.
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It's not quite clear whether Wolitzer is satirizing this kind of pabulum or sympathizing with it.
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Also noteworthy: British-developed shows satirizing the United States (see "Enron") have recently tanked on Broadway.
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The slasher flick introduced Ghostface to the world and made its lasting mark by satirizing genre tropes.
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Should we be satirizing a culture that is way out of balance by portraying it that way?
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And, while Payton isn't a real person, The Politician doesn't shy away from satirizing some real people.
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At the moment, though, the show seems to be satirizing a political culture that no longer exists.
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Feature The second-term Democratic senator, who once made a living satirizing politicians, envisions an unfunny future.
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Her skill at both satirizing consumer desire and appealing to it has made her an internet sensation.
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Why We're Excited: Celeste Barber built her enormous Instagram following by satirizing celebrities (her posts are absolutely hilarious).
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With that, we've reached a point where an outlandish show satirizing American politics doesn't seem that outlandish whatsoever.
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Was West satirizing the fashion industry's tendency to promote narrow standards of beauty that often exclude the masses?
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Effectively satirizing something already so cartoonish involves a high degree of difficulty, but hey, Klepper's a white dude.
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In 230, Cridland also produced and sold 294 t-shirts emblazoned 'SWINE 240', satirizing the porcine flu outbreak.
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Roth responded by satirizing Howe and the magazine as stuffy hypocrites in his 1983 novel The Anatomy Lesson.
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Activist Rafael Shimunov produced a video satirizing the speech by projecting images of the Iraq War behind DeGeneres.
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As working conditions in the academic humanities have deteriorated, the job of satirizing them has gotten more complicated.
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His tour was to promote his latest single "Got Me Good" and its video satirizing the Mueller investigation.
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Satirizing Donald Trump's tweets is so beloved an Internet pastime that Twitter teems with parody accounts doing it.
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For those in the know—like this author—it was still a little baffling: Was Dash self-satirizing?
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It was an image that seemed funny, sad, maybe self-satirizing or, if you were feeling generous, trolling.
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The film does a brilliant job of satirizing the harmful ways people are divided by language and fear.
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This one does both well, in addition to satirizing some of the more commercial aspects to the holiday season.
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It avoids the problems of patronizing to Christian audiences or, worse, satirizing them without understanding their point of view.
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Davidson was also shown in a pretaped segment satirizing the efforts to find a host for the Academy Awards.
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In executing this idea, Mr. Sharon's "Europeras" was loyal to the work's Fluxus spirit while playfully satirizing Hollywood history.
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Their double piano act was a sendup of their own mainstream mellifluousness, self-satirizing and sentimental all at once.
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Then he played a wildly imaginative grouping of 20th-century pieces inspired by, satirizing or paying homage to ragtime.
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Satirizing the 1 percent might seem like a dicey proposition for the fancy world of European summer music festivals.
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Does satirizing serious issues like sexual objectification or the behavior of a Trump figure actually help or hurt the issue?
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The page also seems to enjoy circulating memes and images demeaning women and their bodies, and satirizing rape against women.
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The conservative presidential ideal is a Lincoln or a Coolidge: self-satirizing, plain speaking, intelligent, well-versed in the Constitution.
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Feel free to agree with them, but make clear that you're not actually using Instagram — you're satirizing yourself using Instagram.
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It seems like satirizing EDM is a good way to look at what's happening in youth culture as a whole.
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In 1982, Kirby teamed up with writer Steve Gerber (creator of Howard the Duck) a comic series satirizing Marvel Comics.
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Masked graffiti artist Headache Stencil has made a name for himself satirizing the junta and its policies on Bangkok's walls.
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He rallied two dozen of his fellow male journalists at the paper to write a hoax novel satirizing the genre.
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And while The Politician may be satirizing American greed and ambition, the wealth of its characters isn't satire at all.
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The duo produced provocative displays, such as one satirizing the abduction of a three-year-old girl by a coyote.
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By physically satirizing their subjects, the artists set the stage for an inevitably droll and/or provocative encounter with the audience.
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This motif is especially frustrating in a game satirizing the relationship between workers, managers, and the capitalists that rule them both.
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A collective of female artists in the Victorian era made clever collages satirizing Darwin's On the Origin of Species, she noted.
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Yet, he degrades the grid, making it lumpy with swollen puffs that participate in the artwork's visual order while satirizing it.
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Warren's Medicare for All funding plan became target of an Saturday Night Live sketch satirizing the debate around her sweeping proposal.
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At first he seems to be satirizing the cute "he said, she said" manner in which a couple recount their relationship.
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I think the directors were really going for people and their attachments to objects, almost satirizing that in an absurdist way.
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However, it seems highly likely to me that Charlie Hebdo is not championing this anti-refugee sentiment but rather satirizing it.
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Last year, a group of artists and activists developed a project satirizing Mexico's mistreatment of the migrant "caravan" from Central America.
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It's true that when an outraged moral stance becomes more of a moral selfie pose, it can become ripe for satirizing.
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In a way, you could say that this effect tallies with Coward's self-serving (as well as self-satirizing) self-portrait.
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SNL's Kate McKinnon reprised her roll as Warren at an Iowa town hall and came onstage satirizing the senator's energetic style.
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Instead, 21 Underground is defined by its 15-minute chase scene, an exuberant number of explosions, self-satirizing quips, and parkour.
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That's right – the 2017 NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar is here, featuring photos of real New York cab drivers satirizing pin-up photoshoots.
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Adi: There's one very funny scene satirizing the modern "you've got to spend your entire life here, but it's fun!" workplace mindset.
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Just don't pretend it's a new idea; that people haven't been satirizing the horrors of Hollywood since The Day of the Locust.
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Trump's response to the show's sketch shows that SNL is on the right track when it comes to satirizing the presidential election.
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In my mind, it's using a recognizable format to uncover and expose the truths about the format or the content you're satirizing.
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Or is she satirizing the lazy-brained Professor, who thinks that the authorities spend their time punishing the predators of lower Manhattan?
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The very existence of a movie satirizing Hollywood's backward racial attitudes was surely a sign that they were on the way out.
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His videos satirizing the sometimes passionate, sometimes angry, sometimes delusional overreacting fan have many millions of views on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
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RE: AL FRANKEN Mark Leibovich profiled Al Franken, the second-term Democratic senator from Minnesota who once made a living satirizing politicians.
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Do you feel like the amplified version of New York you've been satirizing but also celebrating on the show is going away?
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Screenshots and live links from these Facebook pages showed memes and other images demeaning women and their bodies, and satirizing rape against women.
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By doing that, at its best, The Purge movies are far more successful than Joker at reflecting and satirizing a paradoxical, unequal society.
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That same issue snakes throughout the film, and it often appears Dickinson is mythologizing the same creative class subculture he thinks he's satirizing.
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This work is pure comedy, satirizing the ho-hum, clichéd confession of a wallflower by rendering her with outrageous glittering hot pink nipples.
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In that stream, the creator dressed up as a clown and performed a skit satirizing the decision-making process on Twitch&aposs end.
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Plus it's the sanitized capitalist symbol of what corporate Disney stands for rather any of their particular artistic output that Gillette is satirizing.
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She sent dispatches from the front lines of '70s-era West Coast bohemia, satirizing the incestuous music and art worlds in Los Angeles.
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Disenchantment is an unfunny mess, unsure of what it's satirizing, and unfortunately wastes talented voice actors and a rich world on hollow jokes.
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But Odyr, using a bright palette, has fully adapted what Orwell called "a fairy tale" satirizing Stalin — and the result is elegant and heartbreaking.
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Case believed that, by satirizing a kind of journalism that doesn't really exist in Nigeria, "The Other News" could actually help bring it about.
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During a sketch, satirizing the first presidential debate, Ferrell played Bush and used the word "strategery" to describe the best argument for his campaign.
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Revlock invites several audience members to pose beside her as her betrothed, gently satirizing this ritual while also presenting a spectrum of romantic configurations.
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DeHaan's deadpan delivery makes him seem like he's satirizing his own character, which might be brilliant, if only his worst lines didn't seem so genuine.
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But, while metalheads might revere the symbolism, internet pranksters have taken to satirizing it, generating a subgenre of memes dedicated to illegible black metal logos.
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So what happens when a comedian committed to satirizing all things beauty, size and fashion lands the cover of the world's most famous fashion magazine?
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In his current exhibition, Belott degrades the modernist grid, making it lumpy with swollen puffs that participate in the artwork's visual order while satirizing it.
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Renoir, himself the son of a painter, has great fun satirizing the art world even as he celebrates the making of art — mainly his own.
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It's strange that both a long-running reality-TV show and a freshman drama brutally satirizing said TV show would enjoy the same critical fate.
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Tuca & Bertie finally takes advantage of these themes, satirizing the stressors that make up systematic disenfranchisement and honoring the friendships that make it all tolerable.
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What's rare is the depth of Hoffman's empathy for the foolish poet; I suspect he was satirizing, not someone else, but a tendency within himself.
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DC: Yeah, we were talking about no one making fun of or satirizing thought leaders, and you and I had a discussion about that yesterday.
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It's a perfect summation of today's cinematic stereotypes, which means it can only get better with distance from the era of science fiction it's accidentally satirizing.
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Variously called "navel gazing," a "slick, sarcastic joke," and worse, it seems that much of the point (satirizing our hyper-technological present) was lost on critics.
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" Mike Cernovich, a prominent voice in the "new-right" movement, tweeted: "Media smears Jeffrey Lord for making 'Nazi gesture' when he was clearly satirizing the left.
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Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.
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Satirizing your reputation let you look like a good sport—and, if it clicked, might remind people of why they liked you in the first place.
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Year: 2018, at the 90th Academy AwardsWhat beat it: "The Shape of Water""Get Out" created its own genre by satirizing horror while providing social commentary.
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Amidst the media frenzy, "Comedian," was widely seen to be one big joke satirizing the foolish eccentricities of the art world and its ultra-rich collectors.
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Satirizing the hackathon community's naive goals for techno-utopianism, co-organizers Sam Lavigne and Amelia Winger-Bearskin solicit projects that use tech to critique tech culture.
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Crazy Rich Asians, while satirizing the gaudiness of some characters and the outright fiendish behavior of others, presents Eleanor and the Young family's wealth as something earned.
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She is also satirizing Judd's famous claim that the problem with painting is that is rectangle on the wall, and that its shape determines the shapes inside.
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So far, they've done this by satirizing the tropes themselves (Scream), fetishizing the genre's inherent violence (Saw, Hostel), or tapping into more psychological fuckery (It Follows, Hereditary).
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And keep in mind: This season is set in 1984, the same year that Gremlins was satirizing every genre trope that Stranger Things treats as High Gospel.
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The San Francisco Chronicle review said it's hard to tell when the film is "satirizing cinematic ineptness and when it's simply guilty of the same," for example.
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But "Sincerely, Oscar," an earlier version of which ran briefly in 2017, is the kind of show that makes you wonder if someone is secretly satirizing ambition.
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But more of me is looking forward to it because "BoJack" is its most spectacular self when it is echoing, satirizing and reimagining well-known TV formats.
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"In satirizing Taylor Sloane's pretty, empty, commercial life, Ingrid Goes West points a finger at the proximity of Silicon Valley and venture capitalism to domestic aesthetics," she wrote.
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The app's reviews page has been filled with comments satirizing Cosby's image — a sign that he is now, for many, firmly associated with rape: Cosby's career has suffered.
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It's a radical diaspora Jewish group that has taken an explicitly non-Zionist stance, alongside satirizing the many absurdities of the British Jewish community, and throwing excellent parties.
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Creators went faster, further, and funnier than ever before with new insights satirizing the pressures, insecurities, and general asshole-ry that defines each of us at every age.
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Luckily, the comedy satirizing tech culture also seems to be as sharp and funny as it's ever been, as the central company Pied Paper once again faces uncertainty.
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That's made Erlich hard to take for many of the show's would-be viewers, who cringe at his behavior more than they think the show is satirizing it.
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On the other hand, there's Alexandria Smith, who takes a self-satirizing view of black femininity; her recurring figure is always tumbling through situations with her pigtails flying.
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As even the showrunners have readily acknowledged, the job of satirizing Silicon Valley has grown harder as the real Silicon Valley has devolved into a horrifying caricature of itself.
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Silicon Valley viewers are used to this series satirizing an industry where true innovators are exploited, while money flows unabated to any charismatic schmoozer who knows the right buzzwords.
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After a year spent dancing nightly to "Electric Feel" and doing a bunch of Ecstasy, the duo inadvertently became the shallow rock stars they were satirizing on the album.
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If Mr. Norris aims to amuse us by satirizing the personalities of these pedophiles, he is not the kind of the playwright to let us bask in our smugness.
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This April, several performers were arrested after satirizing the armed forces in a traditional Thangyat performance, a spoken-word style play with a long history of comedic social commentary.
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Here is a cartoon from the New Deal era satirizing Franklin Roosevelt's pump priming efforts: Trump himself has been using the phrase for longer than Trump seems to remember.
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There's enough absurdity in the overall cultural history of science fiction, and especially Star Trek, that satirizing it doesn't require jokes about how the Kardashians belong in an alien zoo.
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The fearless performance and video artist Andrea Fraser specializes in satirizing the rituals and myths of the high-art world, with withering attention on its political and social blind spots.
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That's essentially the thesis of filmmaker Todd Phillips, which is fitting considering he directed both movies, demonstrating in The Hangover and Old School a fondness for satirizing men's base instincts.
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When he was at Baylor University, he belonged to the NoZe Brotherhood, a frat-y group of outsiders devoted to satirizing and scandalizing their classmates at the strict, Baptist school.
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Both work in largely white environments — Issa for an education nonprofit, Molly as an associate at a law firm — and one strain of the show's humor involves satirizing those workplaces.
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The young artist created an Instagram account satirizing the more absurd elements of makeup tutorials, from their often impractical hyper-specificity to the shallow plasticity of those creating the videos.
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He has been satirizing shows with pinpoint precision dating back to 1982, when "Forbidden Broadway" first opened, the parody musical revue that left none of theater's most popular shows untouched.
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He created his legend at a time when "SNL" could do stand-alone comedy with recurring characters without the high expectations of satirizing political figures almost too ridiculous for caricature.
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That leaves plenty of time for fresh new scandals and conflicts to arise for their satirizing pleasure — but SNL has at least one viewer who isn't looking forward to it.
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Carefully phrased to match the language of the fields they were satirizing, the papers nonetheless used implausible statistics, made claims not warranted by the data, or relied upon ideologically motivated analyses.
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They put out high-quality videos intended to make Orbán likable, and brought the producer of a popular series of viral videos satirizing the Social Democratic leader onto the campaign staff.
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Adams is best known for creating Dilbert, a comic strip satirizing soulless corporate culture and the grueling punishment dished out on its eponymous engineer by idiot co-workers and clueless management.
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We did a lot of partying during that era, and we did a lot of drugs, and we kind of turned into the people that we were satirizing over time. Right.
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Russia's most celebrated performance artist and a master of impersonation, he played a crucial role in re-presenting Russian recent history, often satirizing the political establishment and the country's cultural heritage.
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So far, so routine for Ms. Reza, who studied sociology as well as theater and who has made an illustrious career out of satirizing middle-class and upper-middle-class mores.
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The smartphone epidemic is certainly fair game for satire, but while Jexi pokes fun at Phil, it ultimately isn't satirizing anything in particular because Phil is not much of anything in particular.
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And let's ignore the fact that the show's creators have broken The One True Immutable Law of Bill Paxton: that you only give him action cliché dialogue if you're satirizing the genre.
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With the help of art director Gem Fretcher, stylist Natasha Freeman, and set designer Amy Friend, photographer Aleksandra Kingo captured these images satirizing the lengths we go to meet impossible beauty standards.
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Huxley claims he was satirizing H.G. Wells' utopian novels instead, but he was also reacting to the Industrial Revolution, and his anxieties about the social upheaval caused by an increasingly mechanized society.
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We changed our names like they did, and we dressed up in outrageously crazy outfits in order to be a satire of them—only we ended up becoming what we were satirizing.
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The "rich boy check" meme has been used almost 138 million times on TikTok by users showing off their opulence and wealth, and others in turn satirizing that privilege with parody videos.
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You could argue this is the movie's way of satirizing "cancel culture" by exaggerating it a little (those who compare "cancelation" to actual murder might even dispute the idea that it's exaggerated).
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But the show at Carnegie was less about satirizing this stereotype, and more about demonstrating it: The sketch's conceit is a showcase of all the capabilities of a hypothetical Yuja Wang clone.
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Most hospital clowns wear a red nose, subdued make-up, and riff on hospital staff uniforms or a white doctor's coat and use props inspired by medical devices, satirizing what's ordinarily daunting.
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Nothing could be easier, one would think, than satirizing Silicon Valley—but as a deluge of startup-skewering projects this week shows, making good satire about Silicon Valley is quite a bit harder.
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The movie seems to nod to the emptiness of society's obsession with beauty—which is apparently a news flash to Refn—but its own vapidity far exceeds anything it might ostensibly be satirizing.
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In a tweetstorm Thursday morning the independent artist apologized to Dr. Dre for his "Be Encouraged" tour set that includes a backdrop mocking and satirizing major record labels, including Dre's Aftermath Entertainment label.
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Yet the president's preferred medium provided fertile terrain for satirizing and commenting upon the political moment, a mood that permeated everything from host Stephen Colbert's monologue to the diverse winners and onstage banter.
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More recently, she has starred as Selina Meyer in "Veep," a celebrated HBO show satirizing a bumbling vice president and the Washington strivers around her, for which she earned six consecutive Emmy Awards.
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His great contribution — besides making great TV — was recognizing that comedy could be a vehicle for entertainment and also espouse a point of view, just by portraying (and often satirizing) ordinary American families.
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Robinson benefits from many star cameos, including a superb scene in an airplane in which Will Forte, satirizing a certain horror trope, plays an ominous, vaguely threatening older man who terrorizes his seatmate.
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When the ending arrives, however, it does so with jarring implausibility while the story sometimes falls flat, underlining the challenge of satirizing a president whose daily outrages have made him immune to parody.
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The adult Nicholas (Michael Douglas) is a wealthy investment banker, living the kind of empty-mansion, reheated-dinner existence that you'd think The LEGO Batman Movie was satirizing were it not for Bruce Wayne.
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Here's the statement from David Ruth, the director of national media relations in Rice's Office of Public Affairs: The Marching Owl Band, or MOB, has a tradition of satirizing the Rice Owls' football opponents.
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Given his apparent flippant disregard for serious political-artistic debate outside the commercial gallery system, it can be difficult to tell how much he's satirizing or covering up with his off-the-cuff opinions.
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McCarthy's pie gag appeared in between two staunchly political skits, one a cold open satirizing the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the other a homoerotic spoof of Spicer's fraught relationship with the president.
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"Spamilton" skirts right up to the line, mimicking music from "Hamilton," satirizing its characters and scenes, using a similar logo and channeling the hip-hop vibe that has invigorated the colossal "Hamilton" fan base.
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For more than four decades, this all-male ballet troupe, affectionately known as the Trocks, has been honoring and satirizing the cult of ballet with a delicious blend of sly humor and true reverence.
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In a similar way — but with a premium-cable license for smuttier and colder jokes — "Black Monday" seems to be satirizing an idea of 1980s Wall Street excess, rather than anything that actually existed.
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Among the incidents recorded last year: a reporter in Myanmar was murdered after posting notes on Facebook that alleged corruption, and a cartoonist in Jordan was found dead after satirizing Islam in an online comic.
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There's an underdog charm to the bones of the story, and a lot of nifty touches about the era, from the flamboyant outfits to the blaxploitation genre that Rudy Ray is simultaneously serving and satirizing.
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What many of us see, though, is a rap artist making a political point with critical lyrics and purposefully inflammatory visuals satirizing the White House — and a president who can't be offended without lashing out.
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And though Colbert's audience was largely liberals who wanted to laugh at the right-wing blowhards the comedian was satirizing, O'Reilly and Jones are playing "characters" that appeal to people who mostly share their views.
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The anonymous author of Humans of Hindutva, a popular Facebook page satirizing the religious right wing, abruptly shut it down twice in 2017 after posting about receiving death threats (though the page has since returned).
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But Ms. Midler isn't coasting on the good will of theatergoers who remember her as the queen of 1980s movie comedies or as the bawdy earth goddess of self-satirizing revues from the '70s onward.
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Since the protests erupted he has turned his attention to satirizing the citizenship law, and teaching fellow artists how to use stencils so that politicized art appears on more streets in cities across the country.
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By satirizing the idea of image-based captchas being used as a way to ward off bots, the meme-maker is pointing out that the way we create meaning from images can sometimes veer into absurdism.
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Satirizing the farce that is an "objective" historical narrative, Federico Solmi's delightfully garish mashups parade the likes of Marie Antoinette and Mussolini on the red carpet to the sounds of bombastic marching music and paparazzi cameras.
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After all, the video, by the comedy show "Extra 3," was a song satirizing the Turkish president as a thin-skinned authoritarian who cracks down on journalists, the news media and opponents he does not like.
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What both Porter and Gaga succeeded in was satirizing and exploding red-carpet culture in general — it's always choreographed, of course, but most of the time, we're not meant to notice the precision of each movement.
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Though the bakery is cutely called Bread & Buttons, and sells crocheted monkeys and mittens along with the scones, he is not just satirizing small town America, with its hopeless reinvention schemes and hapless part-time politicians.
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It's supposed to be satirizing Paul Ryan's view — the view that first you do a regressive tax cut that makes the budget deficit bigger and then later you come around to cut Social Security and Medicare.
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Give a sweet hello to Lee Pace and my ancient dear friend Mr. Nathan Lane, who sent me a self-satirizing "How dare you!" for doing this out here while he was doing it in NYC.
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Mel Brooks got belly laughs out of satirizing the German dictator in his 1967 movie The Producers, and even during the war itself, Hollywood mocked Hitler with movies like the Three Stooges comedy You Nazty Spy!
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BERLIN — Jan Böhmermann, a German television comedian whose lewd poem satirizing Turkey's president stirred tensions between the countries and a furor over freedom of expression, is back on the air and will not face criminal charges.
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This is certainly intentional — the show is satirizing Mr. Van Damme's well-promoted sensitive side, a move he already made in the 2008 film "JCVD" — but it's not particularly funny, and it makes the show drag.
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All Davidson's music is funny, no doubt—a dark and oftentimes masochistic kind of comedy runs through her entire output—but when art is so mired in the thing its satirizing, some brain power is required.
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In most circumstances, parody accounts do not violate the rules so long as there is a disclosure in the bio or in the user name stating that the account does not belong to the person it's satirizing.
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Along with the chillier and more established Joan Didion, Ms. Babitz was a woman sending dispatches from the front lines of 70s era West Coast bohemia, gently satirizing the incestuous music and art worlds of Los Angeles.
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In a country where open criticism of power can spell trouble for journalists, politicians and activists, comedians say they, too, risk consequences - arrest even - for taking aim at the authorities or satirizing the hardships of daily life.
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A video satirizing Ellen DeGeneres' defense of her friendship with former US President George W. Bush by superimposing her over Iraq War imagery has gone viral after DeGeneres' team got it booted off Twitter over copyright infringement.
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As Jennifer's reach expands, the show turns entertainingly bonkers, satirizing not merely rape culture, sexual harassment, and the fashion world but every arm of the "global dissatisfaction industrial complex," including its " Lean In " and self-help manifestations.
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Another erotic text of the Italian Renaissance, La Cazzaria, featured disembodied genitals satirizing political figures, and its relative virality (or as viral as something could be in the 1500s) sent its author, Antonio Vignali, running into exile.
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Along with the chillier and more established Joan Didion, Ms. Babitz was a woman sending dispatches from the front lines of 503s era West Coast bohemia, gently satirizing the incestuous music and art worlds of Los Angeles.
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"It's a radical diaspora Jewish group that has taken an explicitly non-Zionist stance, alongside satirizing the many absurdities of the British Jewish community and throwing excellent parties," according to a founder of the group, Joseph Finlay.
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What that means (besides that Void Bastards is satirizing the horrific practice of prison labor) is that you'll choose a random ship to dock at from a star map, board it, and loot the crap out of it.
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The film is pitched as more of a black comedy that's satirizing a business culture where the people who do all of the work are often held in less esteem than the employees who know how to schmooze.
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"It's not always clear who is really being an asshole about spelling or grammar and who is looking to cause trouble, even indirectly satirizing the impulse to correct grammar sarcastically, or even sincerely trying to help," Phillips says.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety The fascination of this is that instead of satirizing Ally's journey as some sort of plunge into synthetic marketing decadence, the movie says, in essence: This is the new landscape, same as the old landscape.
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This is not a proposal for the Irish of the 18th century to solve their problems by selling their children for human consumption, as Jonathan Swift suggested in a 1729 essay satirizing British indifference to famine in Ireland.
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With the satirizing "Troïka ou Clochette" (1960), I can think through the timeline of elegiac ideas of industrial splendor, made fun of by the work's nonchalant, jerky, absurd, awkward, dancing movements, which evoke a constantly deferred last gasp.
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Writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are basically advocating for more human interaction, and lightly satirizing our collective dependence on technology by imagining a situation where phones are as needy and grasping about their owners as vice versa.
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Now when Colbert expresses frustration or even white-hot anger, there's no intermediary joke diluting the intention behind it, as there was when he was satirizing Fox News bluster through the voice of a hyperbolic character on Comedy Central.
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"I would say in general when people say The Simpsons has predicted something it is just that we were satirizing real life events from years before and because history keeps repeating it just SEEMS like we were predicting things".
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Thus, in addition to the opening number satirizing Hollywood's self-congratulatory attitude with regards to diversity, Che embarked on a "Reparations Emmys" tour of black comic TV legends from past decades, including Marla Gibbs, Jimmie Walker, and Kadeem Hardison.
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Franzen has never been shy about his disdain for most technology (in the early '90s he wrote an essay lamenting the death of the rotary phone), and his most recent novel, Purity, spends a long time satirizing social media.
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The MOB sought to highlight the events at Baylor by satirizing the actions or inactions of the Baylor administration, but it is apparent from the comments of many spectators and Baylor fans that the MOB's effort may have gone too far.
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Their wildly inappropriate and not very successful efforts are a vehicle for satirizing white male rage (the new principal is a black woman, played by Kimberly Hébert Gregory) and playing with the conventions of the teen farce and the bro comedy.
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But if Fey and Carlock's series is satirizing how quick people are to judge when it comes to portrayals of race, shouldn't Titus at least be forced to consider on some level how his show might come off as offensive?
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At one of her final events, at the Westin Hotel near LAX, Chyna showed up wearing a horse's head reminiscent of Bojack Horseman, the title character on the Netflix cartoon satirizing Hollywood has-beens who use drugs and alcohol to cope.
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But first, an excerpt that might initially seem absurd, but considering that so many tech companies are currently working on or talking about space travel, it's hard to be sure whom Powell is even satirizing here: "Slow down," Niels said.
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" After satirizing the forced bonhomie of electioneering — and maybe self-promotion in general — the opera's chattering "Intro" casts a critical eye at individual expressions of taste that attempt to claim the status of political commitments: "Our politics is a journey.
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Mr. Vinton said he had been unaware of Gumby until long after he began doing clay animation, when he saw Eddie Murphy satirizing the character on "Saturday Night Live" in the 23s as a cranky, demanding celebrity off the air.
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Every few years or so, another one of these films make a splash in the zeitgeist, and today, it's The Hunt, satirizing our sharply divided political lines by making a group of conservative Americans the hunted, and "elite liberals," the hunters.
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In May, a Thai activist and critic of the monarchy, who lives in exile, revealed that Facebook had made a page satirizing the royal family unavailable in the country, in what was apparently the first time Facebook caved to the junta.
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Mr. Wolfe's most consistent topic was satirizing what he saw as the hypocrisy of liberals, especially status-obsessed elites, whether the self-indulgent innocents of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters or the Leonard Bernstein set naïvely hosting the violent Black Panthers.
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In this decade, when a TV show has done an episode satirizing rom-com tropes, the way Community or Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 did over the course of their runs, those episodes have usually involved signposting a fake relationship.
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I'm sympathetic to Twitter here: In most circumstances, parody accounts do not violate the rules so long as there is a disclosure in the bio or in the user name stating that the account does not belong to the person it's satirizing.
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Mr. Ramos was working the same territory as people like Andy Warhol — he even painted a nude atop a Campbell's Soup can — reflecting and satirizing images from consumer marketing and Playboy enterprises and other sources that were bombarding the culture in the 1960s.
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But silent film aficionados say she could evoke terror, joy, pity and sorrow with the best of them, and was a good mimic, too, satirizing adult stars of the day, including Rudolph Valentino and Pola Negri in "Peg o' the Movies" (1923).
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In terms of genre, "In Black and White" is a comic novel satirizing the Japanese confessional narrative, which has identifiable resemblance to the author's life; it functions as a framed story, or a story-within-a-story, nesting the fates of two writers.
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US prosecutors first noticed the sophistication of the North Koreans in the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, in which hackers broke into the company's systems and began releasing embarrassing internal emails and documents in retaliation for a Sony movie satirizing North Korean leaders.
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Watching the film, I could not help but think that Smith was satirizing Matthew Barney and his series of performances, Drawing Restraint, having attached a sequin-covered strap to an outboard motor and in the process flipping around notions of masculinity and femininity, straight and queer.
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When Silicon Valley debuted in the spring of 2014, it thrived on satirizing the excesses of tech culture, seen through the adventures of Pied Piper, a little-startup-that-could launched by a rag-tag group of friends living in an "incubator" house near Palo Alto.
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Mike Judge and Alec Berg, the show's creators, told Business Insider that they're really satirizing the tech industry's lack of self-awareness — which is why things keep happening in real life that seem like they could have come from an episode of "Silicon Valley," and vice versa.
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Other popular creators like Danny Gonzalez, Cody Ko, and Jarvis Johnson have each garnered millions of views by satirizing Troom Troom and 5-Minute Crafts, using the standard YouTube reaction video format in which the host talks to the camera and reacts to clips from other videos.
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After some deliberation, the White House took the unprecedented step of blaming Pyongyang for the digital assault, which apparently was retaliation for the release of the "The Interview," a film satirizing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Obama then hit the country with economic sanctions in retaliation.
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And I think a lot of the negative reactions to it maybe took it at face value that we were actually saying this now instead of actually satirizing it and reflecting the world back as we saw it rather than how we wanted it to be.
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Every May and December, for more than 40 years, late at night just before the beginning of finals, band members would arrive in Room 209 of Butler Library to play loudly and perform a short comedy routine, much of which was aimed at satirizing inane campus policies and ineffective administrators.
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That was really where we began, was with that phenomenon, and I think what the three of us all found interesting was instead of parodying that or satirizing that, trying to look at what is underneath that impulse, and why do people feel the need to connect in that way, what's propelling that on a human level.
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Community Restaurant & Lounge, located just a few miles away from Washington, D.C., is known for satirizing President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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US welcomes its 10,000th Syrian refugee head of schedule Youssef, who knows firsthand what it's like to be an immigrant, is now diving into American politics and satirizing American democracy in "The Democracy Handbook," a web-based show on Fusion, where he seeks to give Americans a Middle Eastern perspective on US politics and challenge mainstream perspectives on the Arab and Muslim world.
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It's a narrative device that is a bit baffling for the reader, given that Maurice is already familiar with the facts of their story, until a twist sends the plot, regrettably, in a different direction, away from its promising beginning as a comic novel satirizing the literary world, and toward the realm of simple satire, which glories in cliché and antic cruelty.
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"Quicksand" is a novel that begins like a parlor game gone awry: On its first page, a little cross-section of contemporary Swedish society — a right-on homeroom teacher, a Ugandan foster child, a cashmere-clad blonde, a son of Middle Eastern immigrants — lies on the floor, spattered with blood, as if darkly satirizing the country's self-image of civilized multiculturalism.
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Still, even as American Vandal is building its fictional case, it's simultaneously satirizing some far deeper ideas — like why we're so interested in true crime and so insistent that it come to a pat "solution" when that's not how real life works, or even the notion that most Netflix series must be padded to fill all the time they have.
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In its first episode since Donald J. Trump won the 2016 presidential election, "Saturday Night Live" embraced the tension that many of its viewers surely feel, satirizing Mr. Trump, his controversial campaign and the uncertainty that surrounds him as president-elect, but also mocking the bewilderment of liberals who did not consider the possibility that Hillary Clinton could lose — or the conditions that gave rise to his victory.
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Themes other than satirizing VR, including the future of labor, the gig economy, and how VR might mean no more commuting because you can travel to the office virtually, all get their moments in the game, alongside questions of how our relationships with our pets might evolve and, of course, AI. In the game, humans work for AI. and the machines value human-made products the way we now value artisanal food and drink.
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Although he certainly socialized with notable anti-establishment figures — including the group's leader, Hans Jæger, whose writings would land him in prison on charges of blasphemy and infringement of public morality — Munch's shy disposition combined with his religious convictions prevented him from truly committing to the Bohemians' values; he even wrote a play (never published) called The City of Free Love satirizing both the group's philosophy and many of the individuals who upheld it.
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But as the show continues to sharpen its perspective — and bump up against real-life horror such as the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting, to which Klepper devoted exactly 113 out-of-character seconds at the top of his October 2 show — it will clearly need some real time to settle into a voice that can handle both the absurdity of what The Opposition is satirizing and the gravity of its consequences.
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Satirizing societal and religious codes, the five movies include three Buñuel classics: "Diary of a Chambermaid" (1964), with Jeanne Moreau as a maid surrounded by — and manipulating — lechers in a country estate; "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972), an Oscar-winning absurdist confection about upper-class couples whose attempts to have a meal together are continually interrupted; and "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977), Buñuel's last film, in which Fernando Rey plays a gentleman obsessed with a young dancer, who is played by two women to reflect her many moods.
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