"He's really good at skewering show business and at skewering race relations in this country," said Variety's Tim Gray.
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Stephen Colbert spends a lot of time skewering Donald Trump.
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Ms McInerney draws memorable characters, skewering them in a phrase.
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But its skewering of regulators makes it an essential account.
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Heartbreak is a recurring theme on these Tumblrs, so is skewering
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Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), speaking metaphorically of Pelosi skewering Trump's speech.
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The entire publication is dedicated to skewering the Black Student Union.
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We have a rich tradition of comedy shows skewering our politicians.
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This isn't a reaction to a day of skewering at all.
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They must have known a Saturday Night Live skewering was coming.
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When it was eventually screened, the film's skewering of misogyny was applauded.
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Jeff Flake's retreat from the Senate while skewering Trump won't advance conservatism.
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And she is having fun skewering the old guard on Capitol Hill.
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Their comedy slyly vacillates between articulating this animus and then skewering it.
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Saturday Night Live had five wins for their Trump-skewering latest season.
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The movie is skewering actors and how they take themselves so seriously.
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Fun skewering of all sides and an excellent picture of you, BTW.
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Saturday Night Live went big with this week's Donald Trump-skewering cold open.
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These were not celebrations of the status quo, but the skewering of it.
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It's not even an ad: It's a live musical skewering its own industry.
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"We have a rich tradition of comedy shows skewering our politicians," Obeidallah said.
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I'd suggest marinating them in sesame oil and soy sauce before skewering and grilling.
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He was a fiery fixture on MSNBC skewering President Trump during the Mueller investigation.
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I'm down for dialogue that never stops skewering the insanity of modern medical insurance.
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The show is more interested in skewering politics itself than specific parties and people.
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After skewering the Sabres with a goal in the Capitals' 3-1 win on Nov.
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"The last thing we want is the British banks skewering the economy," the source said.
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Sunday night's episode of the Fox animated series was all about skewering President Donald Trump.
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Instead of viciously skewering a public figure who deserved scrutiny, we let him off easy.
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This time around, he came as the "Brown-Eyed Grill" to her veggie-skewering chef.
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The illustrator Graham Roumieu delivers a gently skewering piece of graphic art about Canada Nice.
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His stories were by turns sardonic, compassionate and joyful, especially when skewering the academic life.
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Over a few hours, the president seemed to oscillate between supporting and skewering the deal.
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But only four years ago that same organ was skewering Mr Osborne for his "omnishambles" Budget.
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Well, we got a look at him this week in a cute skewering of CEO types.
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It is only fitting then, that the Carmichael project receive an adequate skewering from Juice Media.
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He stepped up to the plate, immediately skewering the Academy for its lack of nonwhite nominees.
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Skewering Canada may help Trump and Cruz with the xenophobes who sadly dominate the GOP primaries.
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Check out the rest of the skewering ... which covered ratings, Nixon and Alfred E. Neuman. Hysterical.
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It's just the latest in a slew of controversial clips from Cohen skewering right-wing politicians.
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And there's definitely no one funnier when it comes to both celebrating and skewering combat sports.
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This quick skewering of an obnoxious young man in "Sense and Sensibility" is only one example.
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A generation ago she was admired on the left for skewering June Cleaver expectations for media moms.
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You're a company that is skewering brand marketing and consumerist economy while also benefiting from consumerist economy.
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We change the scripts like two days before we shoot because the stuff we're skewering is changing constantly.
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Plus, he makes me laugh -- skewering "low energy" Jeb Bush or "Lyin'" Ted Cruz or "Crooked Hillary" Clinton!
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Forced to live in Japan for his own safety, the cartoonist is well known for skewering China's elite.
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Bee is known for skewering politicians and calling out what she sees as bullshit from people in power.
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The very network that Chairman Perez is skewering now, came to the defense of our colleagues at CNN.
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As a regular contributor to Harper's Weekly, he wielded enormous influence, skewering corrupt officials and politicians he opposed.
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Obviously, the bold comedian was skewering the racist stereotype that all Asian and Jewish Americans are math whizzes.
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There's a particular kind of satisfaction to be had in skewering the pleasures of the global super-rich.
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While skewering its vacuity and vulgarity, Langsdorf captures the sensuous allure of confident, over-the-top American consumerism.
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Hollywood had a horrible summer, and it's blaming the review site Rotten Tomatoes for skewering its recent offerings.
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Whitehead surveys Las Vegas with his novelist's eye, skewering and savoring the characters and lingo of the strip.
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When she isn't skewering witnesses before the Financial Services Committee, Porter focuses on health care and childcare legislation.
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This of course is because Parasite is an absolute skewering of the rich, and Teigen, obviously, is rich.
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This all-male troupe, dancing in point shoes and drag, has been honoring and skewering ballet since 2858.
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This all-male troupe, dancing in point shoes and drag, has been honoring and skewering ballet since 1974.
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Mr. Angelo, 423, started out as a stringer for Page Six, the paper's saucy, celebrity-skewering gossip column.
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But toasts and roasts happen on DAISES too, when you're saluting, or skewering, a notable (notorious or not).
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Madeleine George's untamed skewering of Euripides's "The Bacchae," reset in a suburban cul-de-sac, finishes its run.
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So long as superhero stories maintain their popularity, The Tick will have plenty of ways to keep skewering them.
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Newspaper cartoonists have spent the last few days skewering one another's national stereotypes, whether over food, language or attitude.
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I put together the mix and make some fun garnishes by skewering olives, pickled okra, and lemon/lime wedges.
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Much to the delight of liberals everywhere, Stephen Colbert has spent the past two years gleefully skewering Donald Trump.
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Sure. But I am glad to, at least for now, have a means of skewering our pathetic politics relentlessly.
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But Rock's focus should not be limited to skewering the academy for failing to nominate black actors and filmmakers.
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With FLOTUS in the front, there's a nicely accidental moment of solemnity-skewering with Hillary Clinton as its object.
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It's definitely an industry skewering or at least like a window into the industry that most people don't get.
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It remains that, of course, and the trends Ms. Mode was wittily skewering have only increased over the years.
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After skewering straight men for not doing more to get better at oral sex, she retreats, for an instant.
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Skewering Amy Klobuchar for forgetting (or not knowing) the Mexican president's name off the cuff. That. Does. Not. Matter.
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But it's especially deft at skewering Disney and its many franchise properties, from Star Wars to the Disney Princesses.
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Long version: Vice Principals is brilliantly skewering our current national conversation about race, white guy anger, and cultural privilege.
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What is a "Cinema Sins" or "Everything Wrong With [Movie]" YouTube video but a MST-like skewering, minus the silhouettes?
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Together, the two are a deadly strike team, whipping around the screen, claws out, skewering heads like mushrooms on kabobs.
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Klobuchar notched another sharp performance, slamming Sanders over being a Democratic socialist and skewering Buttigieg for his lack of experience.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America has made it clear that no one is exempt from the comedian's satirical skewering.
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She does so against the backdrop of Silicon Valley wealth and pretensions, perfectly skewering its (and our) culture of excess.
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Comedian Hannibal Buress, in a standup set at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, did a bit skewering Cosby in October 22014.
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He was raised in the Roman Catholic Church and was no fan of it, often skewering it in his act.
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His speeches in the parliament went viral on Turkish social media; his humor inspired caricatures and memes, skewering the opponents.
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His interest in nothingness is less about skewering commerce than about exploring the potential for art to exist without form.
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The first run of Alessandrini's franchise opened Off Broadway in 1982, skewering the Broadway shows and stars of the day.
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I will happily spend hours with her sharp observations and skewering wit, especially when she applies them to New York.
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It conveniently snaps together for prime pinching and can be flipped over for anything that needs more of a skewering action.
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Artists regularly go after politicians of their own accord: to formally commission that skewering seems an odd quirk of British democracy.
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The 22-minute special offers excellent advice on how to capture the perfect Instagram moment while also skewering users' worst tendencies.
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Kamala Harris, who made her mark last month by skewering Biden on issues of race, faces heightened expectations in the rematch.
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At its best, the original film is a brilliant satire on fascist propaganda, skewering the self-importance of science fiction cinema.
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Between this and the recent skewering of confused white people over Beyonce's "Formation" message, SNL sure has been on fire lately.
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Now 28, Ms. Maclean has acquired a reputation for skewering sociopolitical tendencies with works that are by turns creepy and cute.
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That's a broad skewering of hawkish Republican mentality, not even necessarily talking about a specific person's stance or lack of knowledge.
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Well, prepare for a new genre: books gently and politely skewering the corporate titans who claim to be solving such problems.
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It was the sort of strangely earnest statement that the otherwise relentlessly common-sense skewering Bader was more likely to make.
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He kicked things off by skewering the mainstream media for adopting what he described as an adversarial stance against his campaign.
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" Frank enjoys skewering "social irritants," especially "pretentious women who think they're Lady Astor because their husbands make a ton of money.
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Sometimes he lets Bannon's self-contradictions speak for themselves, and at other times intercedes by visually skewering and undercutting his grandiosity.
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"The Other Side of the Wind," a skewering of avant-garde directors, was conceptualized by Welles as a type of collage.
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The awards suggested the television academy was interested in rewarding the sketch comedy show for its skewering of the Republican administration.
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House of Cards rouses itself to life a few times during the season, mostly by simultaneously celebrating and skewering white feminism.
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Fellow comics Louis C.K. and John Oliver have been relentless critics of the presumptive Republican nominee, skewering him online and on television.
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Shrek is a great and fantastically funny for adults because it never stops skewering the classic movies we once watched as kids.
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At the event, where he received a warm response in a large, packed room, he drew laughs when tacitly skewering Mrs. Clinton.
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Her fine-as-needlepoint skewering of Vogue editor Anna Wintour holding editorial meetings in a downscale New York deli was a keeper.
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For four years, she's been skewering the news with her acerbic comedy — while bringing issues of sexism and race to the forefront.
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New York is such a gross city most of the time, and you did such a great job of skewering that trope.
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The brilliant illustrator was famous for skewering the U.K. establishment with frenetic cartoons and caricatures that transformed the everyday into surreal grotesqueries.
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Cook is a thrilling and inventive writer, uniquely adept at skewering modern life, and I truly can't wait for this one. —A.
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Callahan has always been quick with a joke in his songs—a wry aside, a sardonic observation, a perfectly self-skewering stanza.
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Plenty of previous CAH stunts have featured a skewering mix of politics, capitalism, and self-importance, even if they weren't this pointed.
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The slant of those pieces spanned the political spectrum: from straightforward news to cheering from the left and skewering from the right.
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Beginning in the '30s with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Hollywood enjoyed skewering that powerful force on the other side of the country.
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Flap meat, or sirloin tip, is another cheap cut of beef that is usually great for things like marinating and skewering for kebabs.
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His work revels in undermining the aesthetics of brands like CVS, BluePrint juice, or Apple, and in skewering the people who love them.
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In 1973 Loriot, West Germany's most incisive humourist, chose it for the title of an anthology of cartoons skewering his country's bourgeois pretensions.
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" Asked by Entertainment Weekly following the panel whether the delay was due to nervousness over skewering Trump, Wolf said, "No, nervous about what?
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Saturday Night Live began its first show since early February by skewering Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a sketch inspired by Forrest Gump.
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It feels like watching Peeping Tom (1960), the movie that shows a murderer skewering his victims with a blade attached to his camera.
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They also oscillated, pretty impressively, between the light and the dark -- from a funny moment with Spider-Man to Thanos skewering Iron Man.
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"Temer's poems are really somewhat of a joke," said Daniel Ramos, 25, an engineer who created a Twitter account skewering Mr. Temer's verse.
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Wrap half a slice of bacon around each shrimp, and evenly thread onto 4 skewers, skewering the bacon so it stays wrapped. 5.
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"You must continue your work of skewering people and customs in our capitalist society that abuse the process," a reader in Jackson, Miss.
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"Warner's style is delicate and arch, consisting of a gentle skewering of religious ladies that recalls Barbara Pym," writes our reviewer, Josephine Livingstone.
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During a rally in the suburban Pittsburgh district, Trump was in full campaign mode, railing against the media and skewering his Democratic opponents.
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The final "Saturday Night Live" of 2019 opened with a star-studded sketch skewering the sixth Democratic presidential debate and President Trump's impeachment.
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But it's also skewering the absurd ways in which corporations co-opt the language of environmental and localist movements to reel in consumers.
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Bachelor Nation, brace yourselves, because Saturday Night Live spared no one in this week's skewering of Colton Underwood's season with their "Virgin Hunk" sketch.
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He is better at skewering lazy ideas, like the fad for internet-connected buildings, and at highlighting the ideological struggles over the built environment.
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Jim Carrey has gained notoriety recently for his political cartoons skewering the Donald Trump Administration — and he thinks the president might actually like them.
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Rock made a surprise appearance on this week's Chappelle-hosted Saturday Night Live to participate in a gentle-yet-firm skewering of Super Tuesday.
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Some mocked her, with the top German conservative skewering her announcement that she would restore Britain's old blue passports after Brexit as a "scam".
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Celebrities, including some of the late-night television personalities who have been skewering Spicer's role in the White House, also responded to the announcement.
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GADO has had no qualms about skewering politicians of all persuasions in 23 years as a cartoonist for a host of east African newspapers.
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It seems like a perfect fit given Miranda's experience with live performance, political humor, musical satire, New York City culture, and Donald Trump skewering.
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When I was 11 years old, my first job was skewering shish kebab at my family's Greek food stand at the Jersey Shore boardwalk.
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I'm always interested in skewering, examining and implicating the people in the room because they are the ones that showed up for the performance.
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Case in point is her 2016 Netflix special, which sees the Texas-born comedian skewering everything from sexual harassment to your shitty party habits.
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Gridiron Club members don wigs and costumes to perform satirical skits skewering the president and Washington political class, a tradition dating back to 1885.
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I took pleasure in stuffing sausages into delicate casings, wrapping them into elegant coils, then skewering them on rosemary branches to grill alongside quail.
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Read more: Bernie Sanders goes into attack mode, skewering Joe Biden and the mainstream media after a string of crushing defeats on Super Tuesday
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"Saturday Night Live," which revived its fortunes last season with a weekly skewering of Mr. Trump, claimed the most awards of any show Sunday.
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At the heart of this 1885 operetta by the librettist William Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan is a satire skewering British bureaucratic zeal.
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If this is a Trump-era satire, there's no bite or substance to its skewering of the privilege of the California liberals it portrays.
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Veering between clunky social commentary and inspired observation (like a hilarious skewering of Brooklyn baby showers), "Catfight" is an acid attack on callous privilege.
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George Osborne, a former Tory chancellor, has had an enjoyable election skewering Mrs May from the editor's chair at the Evening Standard, a London newspaper.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom has been skewering unrealistic expectations of women (set by both men and women) and debunking sex myths for years.
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She's skewering the disconnected nature of modern life here, but also considering how it feels for women; when we show emotion, it's perceived as weakness.
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Silicon Valley is wrapping up after a six-year run, and it arrives at a time when big tech might need more skewering than ever.
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Lifetime's critically acclaimed Bachelor-skewering drama series UnREAL is back for its third season, and PEOPLE's got the exclusive premiere of its first official trailer.
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Two of Portlandia's more popular culture-skewering characters are the Goths, who often do Goth-inappropriate things and act all spooky about them (what hilarity!).
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — For his cartoons skewering Malaysia's political elite, Zulkiflee Anwar Haque was hit with nine sedition charges and banned from leaving the country.
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On top of which, it was Colbert, years ago, who coined the term "truthiness," pointedly exposing — and skewering — politicians' self-servingly cavalier relationship with reality.
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Ms. Warren's team did not respond directly to Mr. Biden's attacks on policy matters, instead skewering his campaign's reliance on high-dollar fund-raising events.
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One optional side character, the pseudonymous "Sunday Friend," is about the most effective, skewering portrayal of Third Way ideology I've seen in games or out.
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Yes, "Saturday Night Live" was at it once more, skewering the president's "national emergency" announcement in the Rose Garden and ruining his après-golf evening.
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Furious Peloton members are skewering the company's delivery partner over broken $2,000 bikes and scratched hardwood floors — and the company is starting to take note.
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Joe Dante's elaborate skewering of greeting-card-cover America unleashes a bunch of tiny monsters in the perfect small town as the holidays settle in.
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After skewering President Trump on Real Time Friday night for his handling of the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, the comic pivoted to talk about Bannon's exit.
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It was published in black-and-white, and at first I (mistakenly) thought the pop-culture and politics-skewering magazine was just supposed to be funny.
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All the more ironic, then, that Silicon Valley is such a deft skewering of startup culture, technological obsession, and the clash of digital versus "real" life.
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After skewering those yogurt commercial tropes of impossibly perfect women, the brand delves into some more realistic portrayals of what professional women's mornings might look like.
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Though New Hampshire seemed like a lost cause, she punched hard in Thursday night's debate, skewering Sanders' lofty proposals as fantasy that could never be achieved.
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The other is the 1979 groove album Rockit, sharpened by two back-end songs skewering the racist society he'd striven so audaciously to integrate and enlighten.
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O slammed investor William Ackman on Thursday, likening the hedge fund manager to a "spoiled brat," and skewering the billionaire's research efforts into the payroll processor.
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Mr. Trump was a leading voice questioning Mr. Obama's birth location and citizenship, and Mr. Obama has responded by taking particular delight in skewering Mr. Trump.
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Or he had, they said, simply returned a provocation with a counterpunch (by ridiculing Carly Fiorina's face as unpresidential or skewering Rosie O'Donnell for her weight).
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A dizzying tableau of weapons wielded, belles protected, and black bodies assailed, the piece has the odd effect of skewering and serving its stereotypes at once.
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WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's indignant dissents from the bench have turned her into a heroine of the left, beloved for methodically skewering her conservative colleagues.
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The fearless, furiously funny satirist Samantha Bee — creator of the tonic weekly idiot-skewering show "Full Frontal" on TBS — falls outside the scope of her survey.
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Mr. Chappelle may criticize the younger generation, but he stops short of anything approaching a lecture, always far more comfortable skewering his own insecurities and irresponsibility.
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It's a timely and necessary skewering of "self-care" and its ends, and forces readers to contend with their expectations of happiness, wellness, and life in general.
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First came the comments skewering the restaurant for political bias and underwhelming ambiance, and then — because this is the internet — came the user-uploaded images of swastikas.
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With SNL so frequently making headlines for its topical comedy and political skewering, it can sometimes be difficult to zoom out and fully comprehend the show's legacy.
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It's hilarious on multiple levels: the skewering of "do it for the 'gram" culture, the complete and utter roasting of the dude, the messiness of it all.
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Pete Davidson's return to Saturday Night Live included skewering of President Donald Trump's administration as well as some good news about his sex life since getting sober.
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For those who competed against Mr. Trump during the Republican nominating contest, and warned of his vulnerabilities, the skewering from Mr. Obama brought a sense of wistfulness.
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After Donald J. Trump deemed "Saturday Night Live" a "hit job" last week, the show wasted no time in skewering his latest debate performance against Hillary Clinton.
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While the Parks are actually "good" people, I think there's a skewering there of how parasitic — er, dependent — they are on the lives of their domestic workers.
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From that city, close to Washington but not of it, Mencken could ridicule both sides of the widening divide, and did, skewering fundamentalists and Eastern eggheads alike.
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In a field of many other milquetoast moderates — including the front-runner Joe Biden — why has Mayor Pete been singled out for special skewering by young radicals?
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Co-directed, executive produced, and starring George Clooney as the General Scheisskopf, Catch 22 flies through Heller's skewering of the absurd, frustrating, and uncompromising nature of war.
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Saturday Night Live has spent most of its political capital since 2016 on skewering the Trump administration — which it did again in their cold open last night.
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The show frequently addresses themes of feminism and capitalism, skewering the "Lean In" brand of feminism represented by the Sheryl Sandbergs and Audrey Gelmans of the world.
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And judging by the first of the new batch — a righteous, hilarious skewering of the 22000 Danish monster movie Reptilicus—there won't be a lot of buyers' remorse.
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Variety reported that week that Cohen was in talks with Showtime to distribute a new project, leading to speculation that he was working on a Trump-skewering show.
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Nesgoda told me (and her artist's statement points out) that Virgin is more about how society categorizes women as virgins and whores than it is about skewering Christianity.
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Come for the earnest skewering of cliches portrayed in biopics like Ray, stay for Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Justin Long, and Jason Schwartzman as the India-era Beatles.
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He's still hectoring layabouts, chronicling toilers, and mocking nouvies, although these days he's also skewering the bogus trappings of Irish patriotism and the porousness of the Ulster border.
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The Trumpworld-skewering cold opens, once a weekly highlight, have fallen off a cliff and now more resemble a burning wreckage of forced wisecracks and ill-conceived ideas.
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At the time, he was skewering right-wing talking heads including Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck, all of whom still exert significant influence in Republican politics.
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In response to these incidents, the website Super Deluxe made a video deftly skewering the Clinton campaign's less-than-successful attempts to use memes for political gain. Mrs.
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She's a wonderful writer with lots of experience skewering and admiring the United Kingdom and I suspect many of you will enjoy her take on all things America.
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Although he created plenty of nonpolitical work — like portraits of Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and other musicians for Rolling Stone — his most memorable efforts often involved skewering politicians.
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And Eve Fowler inscribes the revolutionary, logic-skewering language of the lesbian modernist Gertrude Stein on a large wood panel, a format that brings protest posters to mind.
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Since then, she's been posting regular cartoons skewering the "good boy": the ostensibly "progressive" dude whose shitty treatment of actual people doesn't dovetail with his performative feminist politics.
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But Wilder's humor is on point when it comes to skewering the pretensions of Long Island's upper class; this is as sharp and wry as romantic comedy gets.
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Still, fears of a no-deal Brexit skewering Britain's economy in less than four months' time are reflected in heightened volatility and outright short positions held by hedge funds.
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And the sheer cluelessness of skewering street style bloggers, whom the industry has by and large embraced and exploited, shows a naïveté from both the artist and the publication.
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T'Challa's appearance on Black Jeopardy finds comedy in skewering the societal imbalance between utopian, fictional Wakanda and a too-real USA that's still built on top of racist foundations.
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And with a new nimbleness in a new season, the show feels capable, perhaps for the first time, of skewering its characters, rather than being saved by dick jokes.
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A reason to stick around: Like Bechdel, Evaristo has a gift for appraising the lives of her characters with sympathy and grace while gently skewering some of their pretensions.
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With its outrageous premise and unabashed skewering of racial stereotypes, "The Sellout" is an audacious choice for the judges, who oversee one of the most prestigious awards in literature.
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But in August 85033 he raised eyebrows in some diplomatic circles when he wrote an op-ed for The Hill skewering Trump for some of his comments on Russia.
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As part of comedy team lets GOtoCLASS, 31-year-old Los Angeles resident Erik Hoffstad pumps out YouTube sketches skewering topics ranging from skeevy prank shows to internet trolls.
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If you've enjoyed Danny McBride's previous HBO shows — Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals — then his megachurch-skewering crime drama The Righteous Gemstones is definitely going to be up your alley.
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There's a clip in this documentary, about the Texas-based columnist Molly Ivins famous for wittily skewering politicians, in which she tells a story about writing for this newspaper.
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Opinion Today, after 183 days, 58 news conferences, one perfect "Saturday Night Live" skewering, and countless packs of stress gum, Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, has resigned.
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However, I think it does Heroes of the Fourth Turning a disservice to look at it only as a tool for understanding, or skewering, a certain group of people.
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He has always been a wry observer of the intensity of feelings, although in the past, that skill was put to use skewering (and celebrating) his own cultural obsessions.
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The press has responded with an attitude of righteous indignation, skewering the White House (rightly) for an unprecedented volume of dishonesty and generating a ton of compulsively readable copy.
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Comedian Hasan Minhaj dedicated a recent episode of his Netflix show Patriot Act to skewering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the criticism did not go unnoticed by Saudi officials.
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" The relaunch of the digital publication will take place Monday July 24 and will focus on "amplifying underrepresented voices, shining a light on systemic inequality, and skewering politicians when necessary.
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Some of his songs were sad, yearning for those who had fled — "My emigrants, come back, the mint is still green" — some rollicking and funny, skewering Arab and world leaders.
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Mr. McClatchy is a stern critic as well as a gifted poet, and one way to read this book is as a rolling, imaginary skewering of a poet he loathes.
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Lacey is at her best when she is skewering, and while the emotional dystopia she constructs is not necessarily the core of the novel, it is the most successful part.
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Having already snagged the lofty Palme d'Or, Ruben Östlund's The Square — a skewering of art, the art world, and the cultural elite — is a frontrunner for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Mattis mocked Trump in public, at a black-tie dinner in New York, skewering Trump's "bone-spur" avoidance of military service and his penchant for round after round of golf.
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In addition to skewering members of the mainstream media—including, on occasion, The New Yorker and me, personally—the site usually had entertainment-industry gossip and some valuable investigative reporting.
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A famous line: Why it matters: By skillfully skewering religion, ethnic groups, celebrities and other targets while pushing the bounds of decency, "South Park" has largely obliterated TV's last remaining taboos.
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Rebel Wilson bumps her head only to find herself inside the cliche world of your most cookie-cutter rom-coms, skewering the genre while inevitably falling prey to its charming tropes.
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In his personality, Anton takes on Noah's more charming tricks while interacting with the class and then shocks the fuck out of everyone later by skewering Noah with his writing prompt.
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It's this willingness to fail and be fragile in the service of saying something important as much as the self-skewering asides or shocking stories, goddammit, that makes Schumer excellent company.
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Healthcare, Retail, TransportationFurious Peloton members are skewering the company's delivery partner over broken $2,000 bikes and scratched hardwood floors — and the company is starting to take noteTodd Mitchell loves his Peloton.
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The NBC favorite has made a sport of parodying Trump's narcissism and extravagance over the years, skewering everything from his marriage and subsequent divorce to his other marriage and subsequent divorce.
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It's been an exceptionally strong year for sketch comedy, from the sheer absurdity of Netflix's I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson to Alternatino, Comedy Central's skewering of American conservatism.
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The video accompanying the tweet featured clips of Trump skewering Democrats and touting the Republican Party's chances of taking back the House of Representatives while holding the White House and Senate.
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The skewering of Corey Lewandowski by the staff attorney for the House Judiciary Committee, Barry Berke, made clear that this is not about political statements, it's about getting to the truth.
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Over on Twitter, meanwhile — Trump's go-to social media soapbox for skewering opponents and deflecting criticism, via his preferred medium of the early morning attack tweet — the president has ~65.6M followers.
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If Mr. Trump cannot handle satire directed his way from a show that makes its living off skewering current events, how can he handle criticism from foreign governments and their leaders?
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But the obvious scorn in de Blasio's skewering of his predecessor, and the contempt in his jeremiad, some former advisers concede, threatens to outweigh whatever strategic value it might otherwise have.
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Until it returns, these previous four seasons do a splendid job of skewering the Hollywood studio system, and Kathleen Rose Perkins, as an executive entangled with her boss, is especially memorable.
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It's a gift and a skewering, a love letter and a pratfall — an old-school murder mystery breathed into riotous new life by a young Jedi master of moviemaking, Rian Johnson.
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He said the 2013 decision skewering Mr. Sherman put him in an "impossible position," since Mr. Sherman wanted his client to avoid prison, but also yearned to defend his own reputation.
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Like many of the sketches Murphy appeared in throughout the night, this one delivers big laughs while skewering some uncomfortable truths about race (and the black experience specifically) in modern America.
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And for all its skewering of the one-percent, with its casual take on the college admissions scandal, it's not particularly kind to its very few poor and middle class characters.
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"There are plenty of fun CGI monster-skewering scenes," Empire said, "but a clunky plot, rigid script, and equally stiff acting make this a crumbling disappointment, if not quite a disaster."
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Ultimately, Romero used the Living Dead films to showcase his brilliance as a genre auteur, while darkly skewering the blind corporatism that was so indifferent to society (and his films) at large.
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And the most nominated film of next year's Golden Globes, the Dick Cheney-skewering biopic Vice, didn't manage a best ensemble nomination despite nods for its two stars, Christian Bale and Adams.
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But the best of the numbers is "Anything Goes in Florida," a ballad skewering the goofy, genuinely terrible aspects of the Sunshine State, ranging from Spring Break to stand-your-ground laws.
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But while the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have gone on so long that they're ripe for farcical skewering in the way the Cold War has been, War Machine isn't that film.
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You can forgive a ballsy comedian like Chappelle a couple of lame LGBT jokes—pushing buttons is what he does, and goodness knows PC culture deserves some skewering every now and then.
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But these previous four seasons do a fine job of skewering the Hollywood studio system, and Kathleen Rose Perkins, playing a programming executive having an affair with her boss, is especially memorable.
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But what this slow-burn drama about a legal fixer's crisis of faith lacks in widespread notoriety, it makes up for in its all-too-topical skewering of modern agribusinesses like Monsanto.
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On Wednesday night, during a televised debate, Mr. Macron repeatedly dismissed her ideas as "stupidities," but she struck back with equal force, skewering him as soft on terror and a heartless capitalist.
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And while the show's dialogue, especially, is defined by broad vulgarity, beneath that surface is an experiment in skewering a benighted milieu without indulging in the very things that made it appalling.
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Grosz used his drawings and prints as a weapon, skewering everyone and everything around him, from the plutocrats driving the country to ruin to the crippled veterans scraping by on the streets.
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If you weren't watching the Oscars on Sunday night, chances are you were watching John Oliver deliver a truly memorable segment skewering all of Donald Trump voters' talking points on Last Week Tonight.
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Stalking Ines' life and all over her social calendar, Winfried's fool is just the tonic required, skewering the pretensions of the suits while forcing Ines to embrace her own quashed sense of silliness.
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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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In contrast, Klobuchar notched another in a string of strong debate performances, taking Buttigieg to task over some glib words about impeachment and skewering Sanders over his self-identification as a Democratic socialist.
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Endorse, but disagree Trump may have finally secured House Speaker Paul Ryan's formal endorsement, but that hasn't stopped the highest-ranking elected Republican (second in line to the President) from consistently skewering Trump.
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The president has been skewering McConnell on Twitter over the last few days, telling him to "get back to work," and taunting him over his failure to pass a Republican health care bill.
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Fourth-wall-breaking, meta-humor may be everywhere these days, but in 1986, it was anathema to mainstream television, and Shandling fearlessly dove into the breach, skewering conventional comedic sitcoms at every turn.
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But this special, taking place in 1991, right after the end of It's Garry Shandling's Show and before The Larry Sanders Show contains some of the comic's most acerbic and self-skewering jokes.
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This weekend, Sarah rejoins the RINSED team for Under the Influencer, or, UTI, a not-so-subtle skewering of the subhuman personalities you hate to love, and love to hate, on social media.
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And a Democratic super PAC this week announced it would spend $5 million on digital ads skewering Trump's response to the coronavirus — marking the party's first major ad buy related to the outbreak.
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But within the context of Fey's oeuvre, this skewering seems less like a few off-handed jokes here and there, and more like another example of a long-standing vendetta against sex positivity.
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One of the more cynical touches from the new season is the Forgivies, an awards ceremony skewering the current spate of prominent public figures who are accused of wielding their power for bad.
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Viewership for the Screen Actors Guild Awards plummeted 30 percent, hurt in part by competition from football, while the Grammy Awards, which included a high-profile sketch skewering President Trump, plunged 24 percent.
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Anger over social inequality, corruption and gross incompetency rose to the surface, and the media did its duty — with its own agendas and biases, for sure — of skewering the government and the president.
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In addition to the flap over the briefing, Trump doubled down on his skewering of U.S. intelligence officers Wednesday, appearing to grant more credibility to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange than to American spy agencies.
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The book, which comes out next week, delves into the ugliness of America's past, present, and future political landscapes, with chapters skewering both parties, the legacy press, and the country's abusive relationship with capitalism.
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On Wednesday, Biden gave what is expected to be the final major political address of his career at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, skewering GOP nominee Donald Trump and endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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It should be noted Drake was 23 at the time of the video, and age of consent in Colorado is 17 ... but that hasn't stopped many fans from skewering the rapper for his behavior.
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Skewering these chicken hearts with a rosemary sprig before getting them nice and crispy on the grill leaves behind just the right amount of herby flavor to balance nicely with the lemon and tahini.
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"Camping" comes from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner of "Girls," who adapted it from a British series along with John Riggi, and it shares their previous show's penchant for skewering the myopic urban privileged.
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McBride, who with "Gemstones" notched his first credit as a lone creator, said the ambiguity was by design: He was interested in skewering hypocrisy, but not faith per se, even that of the Gemstones.
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And from Jayson Musson, best known for the brilliant series of art-world-skewering videos he made as the character Hennessy Youngman, but now returning to drawing, come two gouaches on coffee-stained paper.
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The billionaire media mogul essentially bought his way onstage and took heavy criticism from Elizabeth Warren, who repeated her performance from last week's debate in which she delighted in skewering him at every turn.
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Also on view is a series of satirical political drawings skewering then president Richard Nixon and his entourage, more counter-culture cartoon than high art, further evidence of Guston's rejection of distinct aesthetic categories.
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Eventually, Ryan transitioned into creating celebrity parody videos skewering Kim Kardashian, Amy Winehouse, and Justin Bieber, which catapulted her into the upper echelons of the YouTube space and offered her opportunities outside of online videos.
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"Don't Believe Every Tweet" could be skewering the company itself for its ongoing moderation problem, which has been exacerbated in recent weeks by Dorsey's shifting position on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars network.
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SNL might have been a bit late to the game in skewering the election, but when it did, all its writers had to do was hold out their hands to receive the latest new material.
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Frank delights in skewering the sacred cows of coastal liberalism, including private universities, bike paths, microfinance, the Clinton Foundation, "well-meaning billionaires" and any public policy offering "innovation" or "education" as a solution to inequality.
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It leads Ivy across the Styx into an exaggerated Southern elite culture in which the self-proclaimed toast of Mardi Gras society is more pathetic than grand, and is ready made for Ms. Semple's skewering.
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Though he was funny and cutting and unsparing in skewering fools, he was devoted to those he supported, like Mr. Margiela, and the designers in whose work he took an early interest, like Helmut Lang.
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When Comedy Central announced that Klepper would helm his own series, it sounded as though he would be trying to launch his own version of The Colbert Report, skewering Alex Jones instead of Bill O'Reilly.
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And his skewering of it is absolutely glorious, starting with the decor: The dining room, deep in the hotel, is a broad space of high ceilings and coving, with thick carpets to muffle the screams.
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" For the next 20 minutes, she remained resolute as she delivered an extraordinarily scorching dissent, skewering the court's decision and condemning the ban as "harrowing" and "motivated by hostility and animus toward the Muslim faith.
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It was a dramatic reversal in tone for Clinton and Obama, who spent the closing weeks of the presidential campaign skewering Trump as a dangerous candidate who threatened to bring the country to its knees.
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The theater is not too far from the house Ms. Ivins grew up in posh River Oaks, where she learned the art of skewering the pompous and wrongheaded during dinner table arguments with her daddy.
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But while at times this movie seems like a cross between "Meek's Cutoff" and "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie," it's not too deeply invested in skewering social classes of the past or the present.
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That worked great in 30 Rock, which often lobbed politically and socially satirical barbs, in its skewering of both rich white Republican politics (via Jack Donaghy) and well-off white liberal guilt (via Liz Lemon).
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The Bellboy, a film in which Lewis almost never speaks, features meticulous staging and detail, and allows Lewis to do experimental comedy on a grand scale while skewering the casual narcissism of everyday modern life.
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This Saturday, Saturday Night Live with first-time host Emma Thompson aired a sketch entitled "Beauty and the Beast" that entails a skewering of dudebro gym rats in the form of Beck Bennett as the Beast.
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Twitter user Parker Molloy captured one such skewering when she uploaded screenshots of a conversation between the official Wendy's Twitter account and that of illustrator and Wendy's critic, Thuggy-D, who tweets from a private account.
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Take, for example, a movie-musical skewering bit near the end of episode two — which scans as a declaration that La La Land and related phenomena are by-products of a corporate-mandated hive mind. Sure!
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He continued the digital manipulation with some site-specific trolling—skewering plenty of Texas's finest politicians like Governor Greg Abbott, former Governor Rick Perry, and Senator Ted Cruz, who appeared with their foreheads and noses crunched.
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But with Stewart and his unique talents in the anchor's chair, there's no question Trump would have received less of a free ride from that same broadcast media — which loved to replay Stewart's most skewering segments.
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And she has proved herself canny at negotiating the digital world, creating her own viral moments by releasing a clip of her handling a heckler or posting a photo on Instagram skewering double standards in publishing.
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Original story below: ———— As HBO's Silicon Valley returns to skewering the tech world this week, the real Silicon Valley is here to remind us that no writer's room could ever match the tech industry's ridiculous antics.
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But despite Ingrid Goes West's spot-on take on that world, the best thing about the film is that it refuses to traffic in lazy buzzwords and easy skewering, particularly at the expense of young women.
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Of course, if you were employed at Mattel, maker of Barbie, you might feel differently, since internet denizens expended a great deal of energy skewering your newly rolled-out lineup of modern, ethnically diverse Ken dolls.
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The show's producers and writers will surely debate how far to go in skewering Mr. Trump — jokes liberals will want and expect, especially after the Clinton gag at the Grammys, but may only alienate other viewers.
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The Morning Consult poll highlights why young voter turnout is so crucial for Sanders as he criss-crosses the country calling for a "political revolution" and skewering the establishment in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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But unlike the great Summer Jam rumbles of years past — Jay Z skewering Prodigy in 2001, the 2004 chair-tossing rumble involving 50 Cent — these moments were relatively tame, like attacking Godzilla with a fly swatter.
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Mr. Leno's direct competitor, David Letterman, was known in his later years for skewering former President George W. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, but for most of his tenure, he was not particularly political.
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Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) kept up his drumbeat of criticism that the bank is too big to fail and too big to manage, while skewering the CEO for not informing shareholders sooner about the fraudulent activity.
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Boldly working against Canadiana, Mr. Funk has made a seeming hockey movie that pivots into a skewering of the masculinity at the core of the country's favorite pastime — and any institution that breeds single-minded competition.
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Instead of hearing a stream of piquant and sometimes skewering reflections on what it's like to be the invisible wife of a supposed Great Man, we are given something different, and equally powerful: Glenn Close's face.
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Sparely staged but unrelentingly verbose, Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose's comedy "The White Stag Quadrilogy," now at Dixon Place, aims to send up 1970s Hollywood (and a bit of the 1980s), but succeeds largely in skewering itself.
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As half of the comedy duo Key & Peele, Jordan Peele spent five years skewering race and culture on the group's eponymous TV show—and nowhere was that blade sharper than when the show riffed on genre movies.
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Sotelo nails the single girl perspective, skewering incredibly unfun scenarios like attending a backyard barbecue, where your unrequited love is in charge of the grilling and everyone but you is enjoying the guacamole and seemingly in love.
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Most of 2018's politics-themed cold opens ranged from "just fine" to "what were they thinking?" but this skewering of accused sexual assaulter and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's much-publicized congressional hearing is *chef's kiss*.
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In mid-single digits in national polling, Klobuchar went after Pete Buttigieg and her progressive Senate counterparts on the PBS NewsHour/POLITICO debate stage, skewering them over issues of electability and the political reality of their proposals.
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On Wall Street, Weinstein is best known for skewering JP Morgan's so-called London Whale, when one of its traders in 2012 accumulated an outsized position in credit default swaps that cost the bank some $6 billion.
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Priorities USA on Thursday responded to a Trump ad skewering the Democratic presidential front-runner for barking like a dog by cutting a copycat video mocking Trump for saying he consults with himself for foreign policy advice.
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As a powerful, provocative critic for The New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1954, Thomson (1896-19393) was unsparing and unwary, capable of skewering or sanctifying with a handful of words, where others would need paragraphs.
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William Hamilton, a cartoonist whose work for The New Yorker over more than 50 years was known for skewering the wealthy and the powerful, died on Friday in a car crash in Lexington, Ky. He was 76.
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These are the moments that keep me coming back to Search Party and laughing at its "lol millennials" jokes, because they make me feel like the show actually understands and sympathizes with the specific demographic it's skewering.
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The FBI and Justice Department have a century-long history of skewering targets to gratify their political masters, while the FISA court routinely heaves buckets of judicial hogwash to countenance the wholesale destruction of Americans' constitutional rights.
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Though Wine Country takes gleeful pleasure in skewering the bougie attitudes of wine connoisseurs, the lush, saturated vistas — not to mention the ratio of twinkly-lights to patio — still telegraph a celebration of that upper-middle-class lifestyle.
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Business Insider has also learned that Stewart's Times colleague Bowles, who has made a name for herself skewering tech oligarchs and identifying Silicon Valley cultural trends, also recently met with Epstein in his Manhattan townhouse for an interview.
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Bomb the Right Place is part of a larger series of pointed games in the GOP Arcade, which spent the better part of 2016 skewering the political rhetoric of the Grand Old Party and, quite often, Donald Trump.
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Bomb the Right Place is part of a larger series of pointed games in the GOP Arcade, which spent the better part of 2016 skewering the political rhetoric of the Grand Old Party and, quite often, Donald Trump.
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But it also speaks to the improbable way that Fox News — a network whose prime-time hours are often devoted to praising the president and skewering prominent Democrats — has squirreled itself into the heart of the Democratic primary.
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His insider-outsider books at once affirmed and debunked the myths, skewering movie-industry hypocrisy, venality and pretension even as they celebrated the hard work, scrappy creativity and helter-skelter deal making that allowed the movies to flourish.
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Kindly and self-skewering, Lamott, now 64, has been doggedly chronicling the messy stuff of life — refracting her own complicated stories of addiction and loss — in mordantly comic and sharply observed memoirs and novels for over three decades.
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Click here to view original GIFTED Talks were forever shamed by that skewering The Onion gave them a few years ago, but this commentary on what every TED Talk is like from CBC's This Is That is pretty perfect.
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The emotional lecturer swelled with anger as she displayed pictures of Japanese soldiers skewering babies during the invasion of China and fought back tears as she described the heroism of Soviet soldiers during their brief offensive against the Japanese.
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The Emmy ceremony also will feature other cast members from "Saturday Night Live," which is enjoying its biggest audiences in more than 20 years largely due to skits skewering key players in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Perhaps more effective at skewering such tricky schemes might be a recent ruling by Europe's top court which clarified that user consent must be obtained prior to storing or accessing non-essential cookies, and cannot be implied or assumed.
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The animation highlights include Claude Barras's Oscar-nominated "My Life as a Zucchini," about a bereaved 9-year-old boy, and Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer's "Revolting Rhymes," inspired by Roald Dahl's skewed — and skewering — visions of fairy tales.
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After skewering Donald Trump's Fox News interview, in which the president blasted the man who oversaw the hunt for Osama Bin Laden as a "Hillary Clinton fan," Colbert turned his attention to a curious spelling error from the president.
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What Wolfe got right—and it's a criticism that still rings true today—is his skewering of what can be an insular, snotty, tone-deaf culture, from the almost religious zealotry of the early days of Modernism to now.
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On Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update," Colin Jost and Michael Che paid tribute to Donald Trump's one-year anniversary as president by skewering his tenure thus far, while also poking some fun at the latest scandal to have engulfed his administration.
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"It's kind of like creating a comedy Voltron," says Paul Scheer, a writer-performer who has worked on projects of all formats and sizes, including TV shows like The League and the movie-skewering podcast How Did This Get Made?
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With an audience that consists exclusively of his Persian cat, Mushi, the gay comedian and social media star belts out musical parodies through the night, using a computer and a green screen to make videos skewering this year's ugly political season.
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Lovecraft Country feels like the perfect to follow in that regard, examining the challenges that African-Americans faced at the hight of Jim Crow America, while also skewering many of the tropes and horror conventions laid down by H.P. Lovecraft.
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Perhaps the most successful was Netflix's American Vandal, which took on the tone and construction of a true crime documentaries, borrowing heavily from Making a Murderer and The Jinx to deliver a pitch-perfect, skewering parody that was also entertaining.
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If some of these scenarios sound familiar, it's not necessarily because they're ripped from the headlines (though in some cases, it's pretty close); it's because Hollywood has long a long history of skewering the American political system for tragicomic gain.
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Take for example, the trailer for Independence Day: Resurgence that was released this morning: the first 10 seconds are visually arresting — an alien ship turning Earth's atmosphere into flames, an upside-down skyscraper skewering a city like a giant dart.
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Women-focused humor site The Hairpin kicked things off in 2011 with their caption-less photo blogpost of women laughing alone with salad, skewering the stock image trope of women so delighted to be chowing down a plate of leaves.
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"The brightest star at Fox News, Megyn Kelly is a newly minted role model for women who sees her gender as irrelevant, and a conservative champion who transcends politics with her skillful skewering of windbags of both parties," the profile states.
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Read more: Furious Peloton members are skewering the company's delivery partner over broken $2,000 bikes and scratched hardwood floors — and the company is starting to take noteBut you're not doing that for a shipment that will go out in a minute.
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Whatever target she's skewering, Douglas's tone remains calm and sardonic; it's easy to picture her as the witty but gimlet-eyed friend who sits at your kitchen table, listening sympathetically to your complaints while making rapier jabs at their patriarchal roots.
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The fund-raiser — which had many trappings of a campaign rally, including a speech by Mr. Trump skewering his opponents and celebrating his own accomplishments — raised more than $2.8 million for the foundation for distribution to other charities benefiting veterans.
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That's why they've spent days skewering McConnell on demands to subpoena witnesses in the trial -- such as former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who Trump blocked from testifying in the House investigation.
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Overachievers in the office get their skewering, too, and the result is a pitch-black comedy about workplace norms, general existential angst, and the all-consuming loneliness one can feel when things don't work out the way you thought they would.
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Kimmel touts #MeToo in opening monologue Second-time host Jimmy Kimmel didn't shy away from skewering Hollywood for its treatment of women, kicking off the awards show with a monologue filled with one-liners taking aim at the entertainment industry.
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Colescott's stock-in-trade was the skewering of racial stereotypes through politically trenchant satire, often using shockingly racist imagery long before Kara Walker, who is represented in the collection but not in the show (Colescott died in 2009 at the age of 83).
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His show was partly inspired by Google's plan to build a censored search engine in China, and was set to include work that the artist had created skewering the U.S. tech giant for cooperating with the Communist Party regime's suppression of internet freedom.
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It is much gorier than most films about Wolverine and his fellow X-Men: considering that he has three retractable metal spikes poking out of each fist, it is surprising that these spikes are only now lopping off limbs and skewering skulls.
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Maybe he was feeling a little bit sensitive — Melissa McCarthy was regularly skewering Sean Spicer in her impression of him on Saturday Night Live — but in June, Sean Spicer attempted to regain control of his press room by banning all video recording.
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Demme was always brilliant at drawing out empathically feminine perspectives from hypermasculine narratives (see Something Wild or even the skewering of machismo in Philadelphia.) Clarice is a small woman dwarfed by her setting and the larger-than-life characters she deals with.
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We've seen far better satire along these lines recently, with Tilda Swinton's Ivanka Trump-inspired agro-chemical tycoon in Bong Joon-ho's Okja and Maria Bamford's improbable, overlooked skewering of Elon Musk and Netflix, which she somehow executed in her Netflix show.
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In the most direct skewering of Thiel's ideologies, Denny casts Thiel as a green-faced "contrarian hero" with anti-aging powers and a PayPal belt buckle battling monsters including the democracy and public activism in a recasting of the role-playing game Descent.
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"If the Democrats just paid attention to the economy, the press and other Republicans would do a pretty good job of skewering Donald Trump on the Russia stuff," Roll Call columnist Jonathan Allen said while hosting The Bill Press Show last Friday.
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But the secret strength of What We Do in the Shadows is that where other vampire parodies might delight in skewering their subjects, in this one, the camera is always on our heroes' side — and our vampires are clearly delighted with themselves.
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In this new project, another pop culture-skewering show that debuts later this year, he will be the latest host to try his luck in the post-"Daily Show" slot where previously Larry Wilmore and Jordan Klepper were unable to find success.
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And for almost all of them, future President Donald Trump was tweeting and talking, keeping up a drumbeat urging Republicans to stick together and do everything in their power to stop Obamacare, while skewering Obama as a weak leader and incompetent negotiator.
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"So Long Boulder City" saves most of its skewering for the torture called show business, from Mia's observation that a B.F.A. is "the one thing that makes every Hollywood producer take you seriously" to her narcissistic determination to write and stage her play.
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During a segment skewering the president's symbiotic relationship with Fox News (we believe Bee's exact phrasing was "long-distance circle jerk"), Full Frontal astutely noted that Trump has tweeted more about Fox News since taking office than he has about Tiffany ... ever.
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But before anyone starts dreaming about becoming the next David Foster Wallace, embedded in a tacky culture of capitalist excess and skewering it with incisive, mordant wit (while simultaneously sipping a juice blend at the Nordstrom Café), they'd better read the terms and conditions.
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But while skewering it, I couldn't help but appreciate what the bestseller tapped into, the thing that made it such a runaway success: a human need to memeify and flatten complicated concepts, especially ones about how different groups of people are supposed to behave.
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Those disembodied "perfect" female bodies that make up a faux menu option are skewering Gamergate and the notoriously unfriendly-to-women game industry, while the song itself skewers our political system and the annals of power that allowed for years of oppression against marginalized people.
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And when Vanellope runs into some of Disney's most famous animated characters, it's the high point of the entire film, with the filmmakers skewering not just the tropes of past Disney films, but the tired damsel-in-distress tendencies of Disney princesses as a whole.
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Trump rattled off a series of jokes that got plenty of laughs, skewering members of his own Cabinet like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who were all present in the Washington hotel ballroom.
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In a first for a leading Fox News personality, she has been praised by the leading Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, who called her a "superb journalist," and embraced by the very news media elites, including Ms. Couric, whom Fox News made its name skewering.
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Mr. Peele had fretted that the film's skewering of white people might set off boycotts, but instead "Get Out" proved to be medicine that audiences didn't realize they needed, and worldwide they made a $254 million hit out of Mr. Peele's $4.5 million dream.
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Mad has been affectionately skewering Star Wars since the first movie came out in 1977 — and once found itself in the unusual position of earning both a cease-and-desist letter from Lucasfilm's legal department and a fan letter from George Lucas at the same time.
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She is skeptical of lauded shows like HBO's True Detective, skewering it for its exclusion of fleshed-out female characters, while she elevates series such as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Sex and the City, which she argues are underappreciated or, worse, vilified because of their glittery facades.
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This season of Silicon Valley has seen Richard Hendriks walk away from Pied Piper's video chat app for a plan to change the nature of the internet, with this season skewering everything from tech executive's desire to live forever, the realities of artificial intelligence, to privacy policies.
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Mr. Weigh has great fun skewering not just the Foxes, but also those who move in their orbit, starting with the Dupont-Duforts (Yes, we're told, the Ts are pronounced), a pair of ghastly arrivistes deliciously played by Katherine Kingsley and Danny Webb — she a curvaceous Mrs.
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And on the campaign trail, Mr. Grayson, a lifelong Democrat who at 58 is a quarter-century older than Mr. Murphy, seems far more sure-footed, gleefully skewering Republicans, ridiculing the Washington establishment as beholden to special interests, and passionately making the case of his priorities.
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This is not to accuse the president of being hypocritical by skewering companies that move production overseas while, say, selling Trump merchandise made in Bangladesh, or loudly championing the cause of the working man while refusing to recognize the rights of workers at his branded properties.
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Chris Rock and Steve Martin then took the stage — serving as the de facto hosts for a ceremony that was officially hostless — and took turns skewering the academy for putting forward an overwhelmingly white group of nominees and, once again, overlooking women in the directing category.
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As internet culture reporter Julia Alexander notes, the song "No Mercy" by the Living Tombstone, from which the "I'm already Tracer" clip originated, was a catchy, clever skewering of the idea that female gamers are automatically assumed to play as supporting characters (in this case, that's Mercy).
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But this was his night, even after Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, deftly introduced himself to the nation as a likable fellow while skewering Trump with a smile on his face, and Obama's his own vice president, Joe Biden, thrilled the Democratic crowd with his indefatigable Biden-ness.
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But even on their annual retreat, House Democrats couldn't avoid a taste of the political skewering Clinton faces when Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles showed off some of his previously published cartoons, including ones bashing Clinton's close ties to Wall Street and her history of giving paid speeches.
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"Top Girls" was famous when it premiered for skewering the political top girl of the age, namely Margaret Thatcher, but the director Lyndsey Turner's production suggests this spiky play's applicability to Brexit-era Britain and to families poleaxed by political differences, not just those of money and class.
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Logan, if he'd read Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer and its artful skewering of both Coppola's film and, by implication, Conrad's text, might realize some Vietnamese and Asian American artists would find that particular novel, recalling as it does that particular film, a dubious aesthetic standard to attain.
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For all its philosophical limitations, Rick and Morty's simultaneous skewering and upholding of hardcore science-fiction tropes makes it one of the funniest and most imaginative comedies on TV. And all things being equal, it's better for a cultural artifact to have a point of view, even if it's disagreeable.
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It's fitting that some of Donnelly's first shows were at a venue so emblematic of middle Australia's putrid masculinity and culture, with massive signs reading 'GROG' and 'TUCKER' on the walls and vaguely colonial-fetishist decor, considering that a decade later she'd be skewering that same culture through her music.
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I went to the Elektra expecting jokes as warm and terrible as the sisters themselves — a quick skewering of Kim's 72-day marriage and then an exuberant musical tribute to Kimoji; in short, an acknowledgment of the similarities between pop culture-inspired performance art and an internet-fueled fame machine.
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Zeisler is sharpest and wittiest when she's skewering some of the sillier media efforts to collapse the political into the personal, tackling the implication that systemic gender oppression will be eliminated as soon as each of us individually works out what she ought to be doing with her pubic hair.
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Either way, if the past is any guide, Farage may well decide, now that the British press and social media are skewering him for his "crass" statement, that blaming his choice of words on his being stunned or tired after a long night of poll watching may be good idea.
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But in the documentary, Bill Clinton's impeachment, following his affair with Lewinsky, gets framed not as a situation in which the Clinton administration — and Clinton herself — were complicit in the public skewering of a young intern, but in terms of the family drama and her decision to stay in the marriage.
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McGlynn's first book, the fabulous (and fabulously titled) "I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl," proved that she belonged squarely in the Gurlesque, a loose group of female poets who — combining the burlesque and the grotesque — approach their femininity in a campy way, skewering gender stereotypes.
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New York (CNN)Lawyers for the alleged terrorist who killed eight people with a box truck in Manhattan last year say President Donald Trump's tweets calling for the death penalty and skewering Attorney General Jeff Sessions harms Sessions' ability to make an impartial decision on how to handle his case.
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In 1858, seven years after the newspaper was founded, President James Buchanan delivered a prime candidate for senatorial skewering: Nathan Clifford of Maine — known for "pro-slavery" views, if he was known for anything — to serve as an associate justice under Roger Brooke Taney, the chief justice of Dred Scott infamy.
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And if that sounds like a well-worn — and maybe pretentious — basis for a film, there's a twist: In both style and substance, The Plagiarists is recognizably ripping off and skewering a low-budget, talk-heavy strain of American independent filmmaking, featuring young creative wannabe artists and their faux-intellectual musings.
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Over the course of Key & Peele, which ran for five seasons on Comedy Central between 2012 and 2015, Key and Peele heavily focused on skewering pop culture tropes — everything from friendship ballads to primitive warrior tribes to Saw, The Usual Suspects, and Les Misérables — along with hilariously parodying the excesses of Hollywood itself.
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Ricksican standoffs and Stand by Me sendups aside, the social inequality-skewering second-best gave a whole new insight into the depths the Rick and Morty universe is capable of, and the kind of plot-twist-callback-cliffhanger that suggests Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's sci-fi shitshow is only getting started.
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While the movie appears to veer off into dystopian hand-wringing at some points—there's a scene involving Watson and John Boyega exploring a cavernous room full of scary servers, as well as what looks like a very dramatic kayaking accident—it will, with any luck, serve up the skewering Silicon Valley deserves.
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Members of the European Parliament instead held a shotgun round of questioning, skewering Zuckerberg about Facebook's mishandling of user data, its handling of hate speech and cyberbullying, the creation of so-called "shadow profiles" about non-users, and its readiness for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which will be implemented Friday.
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And so with the next Islamist attack on American soil likely to be carried out at least in part with guns, President Obama's renewed focus on firearms now is likely to keep the conversation about guns at least initially before the hard questions skewering his immigration and anti-terror policies take center stage.
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Mr. Trump also signaled during the interview that he would not back away from a brewing trade war between the United States and its allies, skewering trading partners and saying that he would wait until after the midterm elections to sign a new North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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This bar is a comfortable place with foodie pretensions, and in Kate Benson's savory, skewering comedy "[Porto]," it's where the brainy, funny, lonely heroine goes for a little company — once she's talked herself, surely not for the first time, into believing that it's O.K. for a woman to get a drink by herself.
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He delights in skewering Mr. Putin's cheerleaders and in denouncing the quotidian indignities of life in a resurgent superpower where, according to an April report by Russia's state statistical agency, more than an eighth of the population lacks an indoor toilet and 12 percent of households have no access to hot water.
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Meanwhile, the tabloids are having a field day skewering their home-town candidates – Clinton, Sanders and Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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In a time when political satire is still being mass-produced by corporations like Viacom, and we are saturated with flimsy, laugh-tracked takes from late-night shows and mainstream comedy, On Cinema and Mister America offers a powerful skewering of the Trumpian moment that doesn't have to dilute its message for the masses.
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The comedy still feels fresh, too, encapsulating a knowing and largely good-natured skewering of the struggles that come with being left behind by television's embrace of the now, as well as a caricature of self-serious Hollywood types and anyone who's ever referred to acting as a "calling" similar to, well, crime-fighting.
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But Wilde, often quoted and perhaps more vividly present, is also widely known for a canny, aphoristic philosophy that continues to resonate, as if he was speaking to and skewering our own time:Semi-celebrity culture: There is only one thing worse in the world than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
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For the cold open, the episode opted for a sketch that worked on two levels: skewering the Morning Joe pair's famously cringe-y years of on-air flirting — now that their status as an item is confirmed — as well as bringing in the inescapable character whom everyone, including Alec Baldwin, wishes he could stop playing.
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On her new Netflix series, Michelle Wolf, a veteran of "The Daily Show," brilliantly satirized the self-importance of current comedy, skewering the entire genre of righteous political humor that Mr. Stewart gave birth to, mocking its ineffectuality while breaking down the hack conventions of a bit that always ends with the same Trump insult.
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In perhaps the most surprising news, Trump plans to meet this weekend in New Jersey with 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who was one of Trump's most vociferous critics during the campaign (calling him a phony, and a fraud, and skewering him on Twitter for the way in which he talked about women on a leaked "Access Hollywood" tape).
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My colleague VanDerWerff has argued that MST3K is at its best when it foregoes the snark and sticks to less aggressive mockery of the films it's skewering; but when the fictional conceit at play is that our hero is being "forced" to endure bad films, the audience's basic goodwill should be allowed to have its limits.
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Nick Jonas gets a vicious but 100 percent accurate skewering as a posturing #ally; I didn't know that Katy Perry hated Lorde's "Royals" but that certainly is a cardinal sin; and I've never heard Drake's "legion of dull clones" pushed onto him as his own fatal flaw, but now that I have I suppose I agree.
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Some of its sharpest scenes are those skewering the rich: imperious Upper East Siders who utter racist, cringe-inducing microaggressions, or Mae's globe-trotting, surfer-bro boss, who in a single brainstorm evokes everything odious about a would-be pregnancy-commodification industry: "What if we began sourcing more of our Hosts from lower-middle-class Caucasians?" he suggests.
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Some of these more traditional stories have landed in Smith's first collection, "Grand Union," and while still brilliant on the level of the sentence, the paragraph, the often hilarious skewering of humanity, they're the least successful ones here, sour notes in a collection in which the best pieces achieve something less narrative and closer to brilliance.
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" Indeed, the self-proclaimed "fedora-crushing militant black metal" project (whose three members are spread across various undisclosed locations in the United States) kicked up a veritable firestorm with their debut, which was graced with white nationalist-skewering imagery and which vocalist and visual propaganda creator Kriegmeister Hatestürm describes as "the shitpost heard 'round the world.
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The skewering of modern faux corporate do-gooding is spot-on—Mirando (certainly not a nod to Monsanto), a company that rose to riches selling napalm to the military rebranding with a "sustainable," genetically engineered meat-farming venture, is led by a CEO who cheekily notes her predecessor (and father) was "awful" while making changes only to its public relations strategy, not its actual conduct.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainOverwhelming majority of voters say civility is needed in politics Jill Biden on Lindsey Graham: 'We used to be great friends, and now he's changed' Juan Williams: Team Trump is wrong to underestimate Sanders MORE relished skewering the soap opera producers and hotel magnates appointed as ambassadors by President Obama for their lack of basic knowledge of the designated countries' language, culture or politics.
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The play, at the Robert Moss Theater, is distilled from his more than 63 hours' worth of interviews with people all over the country who align themselves with the Tea Party, with Jeffrey C. Wolf portraying "a New York playwright named Rich," and John E. Brady, Maribeth Graham and Richard Kent Green playing interviewees (and, occasionally, Mr. Orloff's smug liberal friends, who come in for their share of skewering).
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Every frame, every line, and every twist of Parasite feels considered and deliberate, and yet it never feels clinical or contrived, because the twin engines driving the whole thing forward are empathy and rage — specifically, class rage, directed not so much at the 1% (though they do get a healthy skewering) as at the entire rotten system that makes a story like this plausible in the first place.
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"Adolf Hitler: The GQ Profile" is a fun enough skewering of the conventions of celebrity profiles of the morally bereft, but the choice to use Hitler for comic effect feels obvious, especially since Rich has done so before (in his collection "Man Seeking Woman," originally titled "The Last Girlfriend on Earth," a character's hatred for his ex's new romantic partner is amplified when he finds out that she is literally dating Hitler).
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Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharBiden lead shrinks, Sanders and Warren close gap: poll Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers | Big tech defends efforts against online extremism | Trump attends secretive Silicon Valley fundraiser | Omar urges Twitter to take action against Trump tweet Media and candidates should be ashamed that they don't talk about obesity MORE (D-Minn.), who has struggled during her presidential campaign to break through in polling and performance, found opportunities on Thursday night to calmly score points without skewering other Democrats on the stage.
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Giving zero fucks about appearing "ladylike" (and expertly handling a chicken drumstick): Bucking expectations of feminine propriety and getting comfortable with her own bosom: Helping others get comfortable with the female form in a non-sexualized way: Skewering the superficiality of the objectifying male gaze — in all its teenage, testosterone-soaked glory — by embodying it all too well: And not least of all, understanding the insidious, 100% historically accurate origins of painful stilettos: God bless, Amanda Bynes, and thank you for making a movie that will never fail to make me laugh.
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Some notable passages from The Painted Word, include this skewering of contemporary art benefactors and their slumming with artists: Today there is a peculiarly modern reward that the avant-garde artist can give his benefactor: namely the feeling that he, like his mate the artist, is separate from and aloof from the bourgeoisie, the middle classes … the feeling that he may be from the middle class but he is no longer in it … the feeling that he is a fellow soldier, or at least an aide-de-camp or an honorary cong guerrilla in the vanguard march through the land of the philistines.
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Comcast's investment arm is launching an incubator to find the next direct-to-consumer unicornPrivate-equity giant Carlyle is taking a majority stake in a startup that uses AI to judge how much you smile in interviews — and it could be the future of recruitingOther good stories from around the newsroom:The founders of a billion-dollar Israeli spyware startup accused of helping Saudi Arabia attack dissidents are funding a web of new companies that hack into smart speakers, routers, and other devicesFurious Peloton members are skewering the company's delivery partner over broken $2,000 bikes and scratched hardwood floors — and the company is starting to take noteWe spoke to the top recruiters in the booming cannabis business.
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