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Recent Examples of satirist
One thing that’s been a challenge to satirists in the last 10 years is that reality has become so absurd, with the dumbest possible things happening every day, that there doesn’t always seem to be another level for satire to go to.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Created by English writer and satirist Charlie Brooker, the Netflix anthology series weaves our anxieties over technology's growing ubiquity with sci-fi and horror elements, as well as a bit of comedy.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.
—Martha Bayles, National Review, 15 May 2025
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Created by English writer and satirist Charlie Brooker, the Netflix anthology series weaves our anxieties over technology's growing ubiquity with sci-fi and horror elements, as well as a bit of comedy.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.
—Martha Bayles, National Review, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirist
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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
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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
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King has a blogger’s punch and an essayist’s analysis—her dexterous writing is intelligent, observant, and very, very funny.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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In March 1886, Chekhov received a letter from Dmitry Grigorovich, an elder novelist, out of the blue.—
Ha Jin
July 28,
Literary Hub,
28 July 2025
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In those same intoxicated days, Amos Oz—a young novelist who was raised in Jerusalem under British rule and served in a tank unit during the Six-Day War—emerged from the fighting wary of expansionism and the abuse of power.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Chloe Fineman is becoming Saturday Night Live's resident master impressionist.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum fills in the gaps, connecting the old world to the new with impressionists and abstract pioneers.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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However, the pivotal moment that inspired her transition from lawyer to playwright was the #MeToo movement.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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And, as a Connecticut resident, Rodgers was in good company: The playwright Noël Coward owned a stately residence nearby, which hit the market for $10.3 million earlier this year and where Rodgers was known to pop by from time to time.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
21 July 2025
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One of the most effective ways to help build brands and marketing success is to be an effective storyteller.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Different baskets, regalia, or stories can be the time machine, the storage container, the religious fulcrum, the food carrier, the knowledge bearer, or the storyteller.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus. Advertisement Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.—
Time,
Time,
9 July 2025
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By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.—
Timothy O'Grady,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 July 2024
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