Word: satiristic
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...unusual name, is the daughter of a famous person, and has a musician brother. "Obviously there are some similarities there," she says wryly. To say the least. Moon, as she is known to her friends, is the daughter of the late Frank Zappa, a bandleader, guitar hero, composer, satirist, and political commentator whose creativity is legendary. She admits that Growing Up Zappa was complicated business. "I?ve had enough excitement for a lifetime, certainly...
...people could show the South African Parliament what not to do with a banana and a condom - and get a standing ovation. But political satirist and provocateur Pieter-Dirk Uys did just that with a special parliamentary performance of his one-man show Foreign Aids earlier this year. And at London's Tricycle Theatre this week, audiences are responding as enthusiastically to the play, in which Uys transforms himself into a handful of characters - or caricatures - to expose the hypocrisy and ignorance surrounding Africa's AIDS crisis. His onstage incarnations include Dr. Thaboo MacBeki - any resemblance to South African President...
...pure epiphany: a week before, I didn't know I could construct scenes, create characters in action with voices that pulled against each other, and make a social and political statement about something that was important to me. Writing on this rather grim theme, I was euphoric. The satirist's irony--the better I felt, the worse things...
Actor and comedian Chevy Chase recounted his days as a political satirist on Saturday Night Live (SNL) and commented on present-day political leaders to a packed audience as part of an Institute of Politics (IOP)-sponsored forum last Friday...
DIED. AUBERON WAUGH, 61, acerbic British writer, journalist and satirist and son of celebrated novelist Evelyn Waugh; in Taunton, England. Waugh published the first of his five novels, The Foxglove Saga, in 1960, but won greater fame from his journalistic career, becoming renowned for the comic vitriol of the columns he wrote for a diverse range of publications, ranging from the up-market daily The Daily Telegraph to the satirical magazine Private Eye. Forecasting his imminent demise in an interview in November, Waugh said: "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore...