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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025 -
Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
23 Sep. 2024
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An entire section of the Mad exhibit is devoted to movie and television show satires, the majority with art by master caricaturist Mort Drucker.—
Jeff Suess,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Nov. 2025
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John Heartfield, the pseudonym of German artist Helmut Herzfeld, was a leading photographic satirist who was fiercely opposed to Hitler and his Nazi party.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Alexandra Tanner’s Worry is soon headed to a laptop near you, under the direction of vetted satirist Nicole Holofcener.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Mimics tells the story of Sam, a struggling impressionist who makes a pact with a wicked puppet.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
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The actor and impressionist, who has been with the show since 1989, has no idea what happens after that.—
Ralphie Aversa,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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