Satire has been a vital political weapon at some time or other in most societies. There are elements of intentional political satire in Aristophanes’ play The Wasps, Voltaire’s novel Candide lampoons political doctrines of his day and...

Satire is strictly a literary genre, although it is found in the graphic and performing arts as well as the printed word. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision,...

Satire is therapeutic, a necessary ingredient for survival. It uses ambiguity and inverts beliefs to show a new perspective. Context is important for satire, but the carriers of satire are embedded in the mechanism of money. Outlets for satire are funded by the economic...

OUR DUMB CENTURY by the editors of the Onion (Boxtree, GBP 9.99) THERE are some things you just don't expect the Americans to be good at. Hatred, yes: the country that invented the Ku Klux Klan has that one well covered. Humour,...

A conservative, student-run journal at Tufts university published a satirical Christmas carol that ridiculed black students and campus affirmative action policies, then issued an apology after some students called on the school to stop funding the journal.The carol, entitled, "O Come All Ye Black Folk,"...

Before there were Britney, Lindsay and Paris, the needy folks who make appearances on Jerry Springer's television talk show fulfilled our voyeuristic fantasies about the lives of those ready to self-destruct.The TV series may seem a distant memory for some (although the program is still...

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