Word: satirists
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...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...
Beware: Throughout this article there will appear show titles and concepts that may sound like a satirist's take on the television industry. I regret to inform you that they are all real...
When Israel was working on a secret nuclear program in the 1960s, satirist Tom Lehrer captured the rationale succinctly: "'The Lord's our shepherd,' says the psalm, but just in case, we better get a bomb." Israel was following the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China. India joined the club too, followed eventually by Pakistan. And today North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya are knocking at the door...