List of satirists and satires explained

This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires.

Early satirical authors

• Aesop (c. 620–560 BCE, Ancient Greece) – Aesop's Fables
• Diogenes (c. 412–600

BCE, Ancient Greece)

• Aristophanes (c. 448–380 BCE, Ancient Greece) – The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
• Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE, Roman Republic)
• Horace (65–8 BCE, Roman Republic) – Satires
• Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE, Roman Republic/Roman Empire) – The Art of Love
• Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Hispania/Rome) – Apocolocyntosis
• Persius (34–62 CE, Roman Empire)
• Petronius (c. 27–66 CE, Roman Empire) – Satyricon
• Juvenal (1st to early 2nd cc. CE, Roman Empire) – Satires
• Lucian (c. 120–180 CE, Roman Empire)
• Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE, Roman Empire) – The Golden Ass
• Various authors (9th century CE and later) – One Thousand and One Nights, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ

Medieval, early modern and 18th-century satirists

• Godfrey of Winchester (died 1107, England)
• Ubayd Zakani (عبید زاکانی, died 1370, Persia) – Akhlaq al-Ashraf (Ethics of the Aristocracy)
• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375, Italy) – The Decameron
• James Bramston (1694–1743, England) – satirical poet
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400, England) – The Canterbury Tales
• Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1458 – 1521, Strasbourg) – Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)
• Gil Vicente (c. 1465–1536, Portugal)
• Erasmus (1466–1536, Burgundian Netherlands/Switzerland) – The Praise of Folly
• François Rabelais (c. 1493–1553, France) – Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Various authors (16th century CE and later, Italy) – Talking statues of Rome
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616, Spain) – Don Quixote
• Luis de Góngora (1561–1627, Spain)
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616, England) – Sonnet 130
• Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645, Spain)
• Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (1582–1622, Spain)
• Martin Marprelate (true identity unknown, fl. 1588–1589, England) – Marprelate tracts
• Samuel Butler (1612–1680, England) – Hudibras
• Molière (1622–1673, France) – Le Malade imaginaire
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673, England)
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680, England)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745, Ireland/England) – Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub
• Alicia D'Anvers [née Clarke] (baptised 1668 – 1725, England) – Academia, or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, 1691; The Oxford-Act, 1693
• John Gay (1685–1732, England) – The Beggar's Opera
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744, England)
• Voltaire (1694–1778, France) – Candide
• James Bramston (1694–1744, England)
• William Hogarth (1697–1764, England) – Beer Street and Gin Lane
• Nicholas Amhurst (1697–1742, England)
• David Raphael ben Abraham Polido
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754, England)
• Laurence Sterne (1713–1768, Ireland/England) – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• James Beresford (1764–1840, England) – The Miseries of Human Life
• Ivan Krylov (1769–1844, Russia)
• Jane Austen (1775–1817, England) –
• Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866, England) – Nightmare Abbey, Crochet Castle
• Eaton Stannard Barrett (1786–1820, Ireland) – The Heroine
• Charles Etienne Boniface (1787–1853, France/South Africa) – De Nieuwe Ridderorde of De Temperantisten (in Dutch, The New Knighthood or the Temperance Societies)
• Giuseppe Gioachino Belli – (1791–1863, Italy)
• Benjamin Franklin - (1706-1790, US) - Silence Dogood Letters, On Titles of Honor, The Busy-Body Letters, A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, Poor Richard's Almanack, Join, or Die, Felons and Rattlesnakes, The Speech of Polly Baker, On the Slave-Trade

Modern satirists (born 1800–1900)

• Evan Bevan (1803–1866, Wales) – satirical poetry in Welsh
• Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia) – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, US) – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament, Never Bet the Devil Your Head
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863, England) – Vanity Fair
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870, England) – Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities
• Eugène Edine Pottier (1816–1887, France)
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891, US) – A Fable for Critics
• George Derby, also known as John P. Squibob and John Phoenix (1823–1861, US)
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889, Russia)
• Lewis Carroll (1832–1898, England) – Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
• Samuel Butler (1835–1902, England) – Erewhon
• Mark Twain (1835–1910, US) – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, England)
• Narushima Ryūhoku (成島柳北, 1837–1884, Japan)
• Thomas Nast (1840–1902, US)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842 – c. 1914, US) – The Devil's Dictionary
• Anatole France (1844–1924, France)
• José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845–1900, Portugal)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900, Ireland/England) – The Importance of Being Earnest
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950, England)
• Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927, England) – Three Men in a Boat, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904, Russia) – The Lady with the Dog
• O. Henry (1862–1910, US) short story writer known for surprise endings, namesake of the O. Henry Award
• Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1866–1931, Azerbaijan)
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa (1868–1938, India, writing in Assamese)
• Saki, also known as H. H. Munro (1870–1916, England)
• Trilussa (1873–1950, Italy)
• Alfred Jarry (1873–1907, France) – Ubu Roi
• Radoje Domanović (1873–1908, Serbia)
• Iraj Mirza (ایرج میرزا, 1874–1926, Iran)
• Karl Kraus (1874–1936, Austria)
• Will Rogers (1879–1935, US)
• James Branch Cabell (1879–1958, US)
• Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (علی‌اکبر دهخدا, 1879–1959, Iran)
• H. L. Mencken (1880–1956, US) – cultural critic and author
• Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925, Russia)
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975, England/US)
• Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957, England)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923, Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia) – The Good Soldier Švejk
• Oscar Cesare (1885–1948, Sweden/US)
• Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977, England) – Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Monsieur Verdoux
• Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935, Germany)
• Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940, Russia/Soviet Union) – Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita
• Dorothy Parker (1893–1967, US) satirical writer of humorous short stories, poetry and book reviews
• Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930, Russia/Soviet Union)
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) – Point Counter Point, Brave New World
• James Thurber (1894-1961, US) – "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
• Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958, Soviet Union)
• Josep Pla (1897–1981, Spain [<nowiki/>[[Catalonia]]])
• Ilf and Petrov

Ilya Ilf (1897–1937, Soviet Union) and Yevgeni Petrov (1903–1942, Soviet Union) – The Twelve Chairs, The Little Golden Calf

• Yury Olesha (1899–1960, Soviet Union) – Three Fat Men, Envy

Modern satirists (born 1900–1930)

• Stella Gibbons (1902–1989, England) – author of comic novel Cold Comfort Farm
• Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966, England) – Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Scoop
• George Orwell (1903–1950, England) – Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990, England)
• Dr. Seuss (1904–1991, US) – The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984)
• Kurt Kusenberg (1904–1983, Germany)
• Daniil Kharms (1905–1942, Russia/USSR)
• H. F. Ellis (1907–2000, England) – The Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., 1949
• Jean Effel (1908–1982, France) – cartoonist, author of the cartoon cycle The Creation of the World
• Al Capp (1909–1979, US)
• Arkady Raikin (1911–1987, Russia/USSR) – stand-up comedian
• Aubrey Menen (1912–1989, Britain, India) – satirist, novelist and philosopher
• Walt Kelly (1913–1973, US)
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993, England) – A Clockwork Orange
• Warrington Colescott (1921–2018, US)
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007, US) – Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle
• Lenny Bruce (1925–1966, US) – stand-up comedian
• Joseph Heller (1923–1999, US) – Catch-22
• Art Buchwald (1924–2007) – political humor column in The Washington Post
• Terry Southern (1924–1995, US) – The Magic Christian, Dr. Strangelove
• Günter Grass (1927–2015, Germany) – The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
• Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999, US) – Dr. Strangelove
• Harvey Kurtzman (1924–1993, US)
• Tom Lehrer (born 1928, US) – That Was the Year That Was
• Jules Feiffer (1929, US) – satirical cartoonist who wrote the original play and screenplay for Little Murders
• Ray Bradbury (US)
• William S. Burroughs (US) – Naked Lunch
• Dario Fo (Italy)
• Flannery O'Connor (US)
• C. Northcote Parkinson (England)
• Anna Russell (England/Canada)
• Gore Vidal (US) – Myra Breckinridge
• Mel Brooks (US) – The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
• Erma Bombeck (1927, US)
• Allan Sherman (1924–1973, US) – musician, parodist, television producer, voice actor
• Stan Freberg (1926, US) – musician, parodist, voice actor
• Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966, Ireland) – At Swim-Two-Birds (as Flann O'Brien)
• Ephraim Kishon (1924, Israel)
• Jerry Lewis (1926-2017) (US) – comedian, screenwriter, director

Contemporary satirists (born 1930–1960)

• Mordecai Richler (1931–2001, Canada)
• Tom Wolfe (born 1931, US) – The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Vladimir Voinovich (born 1932, Soviet Union/Russia) – The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Moscow 2042
• Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007, US) – The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Barry Humphries (1934–2023, Australia) – My Gorgeous Life, The Life and Death of Sandy Stone, stage shows
• Jonathan Miller (1934–2019, England)
• Alan Bennett (born 1934, England)
• Mykhailo Zhvanetskyi (born 1934, Soviet Union/Russia)
• Dudley Moore (1935–2002, England)
• David Lodge (born 1935, US) – author of "Campus Trilogy"
• Woody Allen (born 1935, US)
• Thomas Pynchon (born 1937, US) – V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
• Richard Ingrams (born 1937, England)
• John Kennedy O'Toole (born 1937, US)
• George Carlin (1937–2008, US) – stand-up comedian
• Peter Cook (1937–1995, England) – of the Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
• Eleanor Bron (born 1938, England)
• David Frost (1939–2013, England)
• Grigori Gorin (1940–2000, Soviet Union/Russia)
• Frank Zappa (1940–1993, US) – We're Only in It for the Money, Cruising with Ruben and the Jets
• Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990, Soviet Union/Russia)
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani (کیومرث صابری فومنی, 1941–2004, Iran)
• Randy Newman (born 1943, US) - Sail Away, Good Old Boys
• Neil Innes (1944–2019, England) – former Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band founder and member of The Rutles. Writer of satirical songs and books
• Gennady Khazanov (born 1945, Soviet Union/Russia) – stand-up comedian
• Luba Goy (born 1945, Canada)
• Roger Abbott (born 1946, Canada) – sketch comedian.
• Lewis Grizzard (born 1946, US)
• Sue Townsend (1946–2014, England) – Adrian Mole
• Don Ferguson (born 1946, Canada)
• Jonathan Meades (born 1947, England) – writer, broadcaster and satirist
• P.J. O'Rourke (1947-2022, US)
• Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) – humorist and fantasy novelist, The Discworld book series
• Lewis Black (born 1948, US) – stand-up comic, The Daily Show
• Mikhail Zadornov (born 1948, Soviet Union/Russia)
• Garry Trudeau (born 1948, US)
• Jaafar Abbas (living, Sudan)
• Christopher Guest (born 1948, US) – This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman
• Georg Schramm (born 1949, Germany) – Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt, kabarett artist
• Gary Larson (born 1950, US) – cartoonist
• Fran Lebowitz (born 1950, US) – The Fran Lebowitz Reader, Public Speaking (film) – NYC public intellectual
• Bailey White (born 1950, US)
• Joe Queenan (born 1950, US)
• Steve Bell (born 1951, England)
• Bill Bryson (born 1951, US)
• Al Franken (born 1951, US)
• Douglas Adams (1952–2001, England) – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Mary Walsh (born 1952, Canada)
• Phil Hendrie (born 1952, US) – radio host of The Phil Hendrie Show
• Robert Zubrin (born 1952, US)
• Christopher Buckley (born 1952) – Thank You for Smoking, The White House Mess
• Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) – Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
• Stoney Burke (born 1953, US)
• Louis de Bernières (born 1954, UK) – Latin America Trilogy: The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
• Matt Groening (born 1954, US) – The Simpsons, Futurama
• George C. Wolfe (born 1954, US) – The Colored Museum
• Howard Stern (born 1954, US)
• Jaspal Bhatti (1955–2012, India)
• Cathy Jones (born 1955, Canada)
• Bill Maher (born 1956, US) – Real Time with Bill Maher
• Percival Everett (born 1956, US)
• Ziad Rahbani (زياد الرحباني, born 1956, Lebanon)
• David Sedaris (born 1956, US) – Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Craig Brown (born 1957, UK)
• Scott Adams (born 1957, US) – Dilbert
• Stephen Fry (born 1957, England)
• Christopher Moore (born 1957, US)
• Victor Shenderovich (born 1958, Russia)
• Ebrahim Nabavi (سید ابراهیم نبوی, born 1958, Iran), winner of Prince Claus Award (2005)
• Bill Watterson (born 1958, US) – cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes
• Jello Biafra (born 1958, US)
• George Saunders (born 1958, US) – author of CivilWarLand In Bad Decline, Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo.
• Wayne Federman (born 1959, US)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959, US)
• Hugh Laurie (born 1959, England)
• Jeffrey Morgan (living, Canada) – CREEM, Metro Times
• Denis Leary (born 1957, US)

Contemporary satirists (born 1960–present)

In alphabetical order (many birth dates not known):

• Jacob M. Appel (US, born 1973) – playwright (Causa Mortis, Arborophilia)
• Michael "Atters" Attree (born 1965, UK)
• Max Barry (born 1973, Australia) – author
• Paul Beatty (born 1962, US) – (The White Boy Shuffle, The Sellout)
• Nigel Blackwell (living, UK) – Half Man Half Biscuit
• Jan Böhmermann (born 1981, Germany)
• Charlie Brooker (born 1971, UK) – Nathan Barley
• Bo Burnham (born 1990, US) – comedian and musician
• Dave Chappelle (born 1973, US) – stand-up comedian, Chappelle's Show
• David Cross (born 1964, US) – Mr. Show, Arrested Development
• Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971) – Borat, Da Ali G Show
• Stephen Colbert (born 1964, US) – The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
• Sarah Cooper (born 1977, US) – blogger, vlogger, author, comedian
• Douglas Coupland (born 1961, Canada) –
• Scott Dikkers (born 1965, US) – comedy writer and speaker
• Bret Easton Ellis (born 1964, US) – screenwriter and director
• Ricky Gervais (born 1961, UK) – comedian, creator of The Office (British TV series)
• Sabina Guzzanti (born 1963, Italy) – satirist and writer
• Bill Hicks (1961–1994, US) – stand-up comedian
• Mishu Hilmy (living, US) – Good Morning Gitmo
• Ian Hislop (born 1960, UK) – Private Eye
• Jessica Holmes (born 1973, Canada) – comedian and actress
• Armando Iannucci (born 1963, UK) – Brass Eye, The Day Today
• Mike Judge (born 1962, US) – creator of Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill
• Elnathan John (born 1982, Nigeria) — Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide
• Kennedy (born 1972, US) – radio personality and author
• Hari Kondabolu (born 1982, US) – stand-up comic and film-maker
• Erik Larsen (born 1962, US) – "Savage Dragon" comic book
• Craig Lauzon (living, Canada) – comedian and caricaturist
• Stewart Lee (born 1968, UK) – stand-up comedian and director
• Victor Lewis-Smith (living, UK) – TV Offal
• Chris Lilley (born 1974, Australia) – Summer Heights High,
• Daniele Luttazzi (born 1961, Italy) – satirist and songwriter
• Maddox (born 1978, US) – website The Best Page in the Universe
• Seth MacFarlane (born 1973, US) – Family Guy
• Aaron McGruder (US) – The Boondocks (comic strip), The Boondocks (TV series)
• Rick Mercer (born 1969, Canada) – Rick Mercer Report
• Tim Minchin (born 1975, Australia) – comedian and musician
• Mark Morford (living, US) – Notes and Errata, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate
• Chris Morris (born 1965, UK) – Brass Eye, The Day Today
• Gregory Motton (born 1961, UK) – playwright and author
• The Moustache Brothers (Myanmar) – screwball comedy and dance
• Bob Odenkirk (born 1962, US) – Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show
• John Oliver (born 1977, England) – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver^[1]
• Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962, US) – Fight Club and Choke
• Alan Park (born 1962, Canada) – comedian and satirist
• Trey Parker (born 1969, US) – South Park, , The Book of Mormon
• Alexandra Petri (born 1988, US) – author and columnist
• Mark A. Rayner (living, Canada) – satirist and fiction writer
• Pablo Reyes Jr. (born 1989, US) – website The Daily Currant and Huzlers
• Celia Rivenbark (living, US) – columnist and author
• Joe Rogan (born 1967, US) – comedian and podcast pioneer
• Eric Schwartz (living, US) – folk singer and satirist
• Andrew Shaffer (living, US) – author
• Amy Sedaris (born 1961, US) – actress and comedian
• Sarah Silverman (born 1970, US) – stand-up comedian, The Sarah Silverman Program
• Martin Sonneborn (born 1965, Germany) – political jokester and satirist
• Jon Stewart (born 1962, US) – The Daily Show
• Matt Stone (born 1971, US) – South Park, The Book of Mormon
• Vermin Supreme (born 1961, US) – performance artist, comedian and political satirist
• Greg Thomey (born 1961, Canada) – comedian and playwright
• David Thorne (living, Australia) – humorist and satirist
• Andrew Unger, (living, Canada) – Mennonite satirist
• Jhonen Vasquez (born 1974, US) – Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee
• Oliver Welke (born 1966, Germany) - heute-show
• Mark Whitney (born 1959, US) – satirist and comedian
• Howard X, (living, Hong Kong, Australia) – political satirist, musician, professional impersonator of Kim Jong-un
• Bassem Youssef (باسم رأفت محمد يوسف, born 1974, Egypt) – comedian
• Rucka Rucka Ali (born 1987, Israel) – political satirist, song parody maker
• Dr. Suresh Kumar Mishra 'Uratript' (born 1981, India) – humorist and satirist.^[2]

Notable satires in contemporary popular culture

In modern culture, much satire is often the work of several individuals collectively, as in magazines and television. Hence the following list.

Print

• Astérix (French comic strip, satirizing both the Roman Empire era as well as 20th century life)
• Benchley (US comic strip created by Mort Drucker and Jerry Dumas, satirizing Ronald Reagan and American culture)
• Bone (US comic strip)
• The Boondocks (US comic strip, satirizing African-American culture)
• Le Canard enchaîné (weekly French satirical newspaper)
• Charlie Hebdo (weekly French satirical paper)
• The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
• Cho Ramaswamy (Thuglak – Tamil magazine)
• Craposyncrasies (Persian book)
• Dilbert (US comic strip)
• The Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics by Carl Barks
• Doonesbury (US comic strip)
• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (US comic strip)
• Faux Faulkner contest (annually published in Hemispheres magazine until 2005)
• Fritz the Cat by Robert Crumb
• Humor Times (monthly US magazine)
• Idées noires (Belgian comic strip)
• Li'l Abner (US comic strip)
• Life in Hell (US comic strip)
• Mad (satirical comic book and magazine)
• The Medium (weekly newspaper printed by students of Rutgers University)
• Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb
• Nero (Belgian comic strip)
• The New Yorker (Shouts and Murmurs)
• The Onion (US magazine)
• Peanuts (US comic strip)
• Pogo (US comic strip)
• Private Eye (UK magazine)
• The Inconsequential (UK magazine)
• The Second Supper (US magazine)
• The Tart (Fortnightly UK newspaper)
• The Adventures of Tintin (Belgian comic strip)
• Titanic (German magazine)
• Tom Puss (Dutch comic strip)
• Watchmen (American comic book series)

Television and radio

• The Simpsons and Futurama (Matt Groening)
• Howard Stern (radio personality "The Howard Stern Show")
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (US Talk Show)
• The Colbert Report (US Talk Show)
• The Day Today (UK TV news parody by Chris Morris)
• Brass Eye (UK current affairs TV-show parody by Chris Morris)
• On the Hour (UK news radio parody by Chris Morris)
• TV Offal (UK TV critique show by Victor Lewis-Smith)
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian TV show)
• South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
• The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
• Facelift (New Zealand Political show)
• Spitting Image (UK TV show famous for its puppets of celebrities)
• Yes Minister (also "Yes, Prime Minister" – UK TV show satirising government)
• Kukly (Dolls, 1994–2002) – Russian satirical puppet show
• Fitil (Fuse) – Soviet television satirical/comedy short film series
• Nip/Tuck (Ryan Murphy)
• Have I Got News For You – Long running UK TV panel show
• Nathan Barley – 2005 UK TV satire by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker.
• The Chaser's War on Everything – Australian satire with an emphasis on attacking 'everyone'.
• Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld)
• Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993–2007) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
• Air Farce Live (2007–present) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Phil Hendrie (radio personality "The Phil Hendrie Show")
• Mock the Week – UK TV comedy panel show
• The Larry Sanders Show – (Garry Shandling)
• 30 Rock – (Tina Fey)
• Glenn Martin, DDS – A Nick@Nite show
• Episodes – David Crane
• Better Off Ted – (Victor Fresco)
• Onion News Network
• The Boondocks – (Aaron McGruder)
• heute-show (German TV series)
• Servant of the People (2015 TV series) — Ukrainian political satire comedy TV series starring Volodymyr Zelensky
• The Amazing World of Gumball – Ben Bocquelet
• Family Guy – (Seth MacFarlane)
• On Cinema at the Cinema – (Tim Heidecke), Gregg Turkington)
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – (Andy Borowitz and Susan Borowitz)

Music

• • The Cover of "Rolling Stone" a satirical lament by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. "White America" is a satirical song by Eminem It is about his impact in rap and the impact of rap in the white communities.
• "Mercedes Benz" is a McClure-Joplin song sung by Janis Joplin
• Culturcide's album Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America overdubbed new, satirical lyrics onto such pop hits as "We Are the World".
• Vaporwave, a satirical music genre with anarcho-capitalist and cyberpunk overtones dedicated to (anti-)consumerism.^[3]
• Mark Russell is an American political satirist known for his many appearances on PBS
• Peter Gabriel's song The Barry Williams Show satirizes talk shows which showcase domestic topics of a taboo or shocking nature (and the viewing public's fascination with such content).
• Chumbawamba have consistently used satire to make political points throughout their musical career.
• Pink Floyd's albums Animals and The Dark Side of the Moon are conceptual and satirical albums.
• The Lonely Island is a satirical music group known for their work on Saturday Night Live.
• Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone's Tony-sweeping Broadway show The Book of Mormon (musical) satirizes the applicability of first-world religion to third-world problems.
• The Dead Milkmen is a satirical punk rock/cowpunk band from the early 1980s.
• Ben Folds, a rock pianist, and his group, Ben Folds Five, have multiple songs including satirical elements. Some of them being, "Underground", "Sports and Wine", and "Rock Star".
• Dead Kennedys, an American punk band, often used satire in their songs, most notably Kill the Poor.
• Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's We're Only in It for the Money.

Film

• Blazing Saddles, a 1974 comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirizing racism
• Casino Royale, a 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and the entire spy genre.
• Get Out
• This Is Spinal Tap, a satire on heavy metal culture and "rockumentaries"
• The Very Same Munchhausen, a 1979 satire of the late Soviet society
• Clueless
• American Beauty, a 1999 satire of life in the suburbs
• Thank You for Smoking
• is a 2004 film satirizing Hollywood action flicks as well as post-9/11 American foreign policy.
• Wag the Dog
• The Rules of Attraction
• Best in Show
• I Heart Huckabees
• Starship Troopers
• Scary Movie
• ^[4]
• Dr. Strangelove
• Planet of the Apes
• , a film satirizing censorship
• Network
• Otaku no Video, a 1993 anime satirizing the otaku subculture
• Adaptation.
• Brazil
• S.O.B., a satire on Hollywood.
• Election
• Not Another Teen Movie, a satire of the teen film genre
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
• Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
• Citizen Ruth
• The Hospital
• Weapons of Mass Distraction
• Little Children
• Bulworth
• Man Bites Dog
• The Simpsons Movie
• Smile, a satire of beauty pageants and small-town life
• Bob Roberts
• War, Inc.
• Britannia Hospital
• Fight Club, a dark satire on consumerism, cults, and extremism
• American Psycho
• Tropic Thunder
• Simon, satirical commentary on the effects of mass media in pop culture
• American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting
• They Live
• Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration
• The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion
• The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler
• Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity
• The Player, a satire of Hollywood, directed by Robert Altman
• In the Loop, a satire of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Elvis Gratton, a French Canadian/Québécois series depicting a satirical federalist
• Fubar
• The Man Who Knew Too Little

Video games

• Fallout
• Fallout 2
• Fallout 3
• Fallout 4
• , a satire on US consumer culture
• , a satire on US consumer culture
• Grand Theft Auto^[5]
• ^[6]

Internet

• Adequacy.org
• The Babylon Bee (Christian satire)
• BBspot
• The Best Page In The Universe
• BuyTigers.com
• Coconut Kelz (South African satirical video blogger)
• The Daily Mash (U.K. satirical news website)
• The Daily Bonnet (Mennonite satire website)
• Faking News (Indian news satire website)
• The Hard Times
• Huzlers
• Landover Baptist Church (US website satirizing Fundamentalist Christians)
• Latma
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency
• The Montgonion
• National Report
• Jeremy Nell (South African cartoonist)
• NewsBiscuit
• The Onion
• Pat Condell
• Reductress
• ScrappleFace
• The Second Supper
• The UnReal Times (Indian news satire website)
• Uncyclopedia (satirical parody of Wikipedia)
• Vote for the Worst

See also

• List of satirical news websites

Notes and References

1. News: Edward Helmore . How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire | Television & radio . The Guardian . 14 June 2014 . 2016-05-30.
2. Web site: 'Uratript' – Indore Samachar .
3. Web site: Harper . Adam . Vaporwave and the pop-art of the virtual plaza . dummymag.com. May 6, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150401173930/http://www.dummymag.com/features/adam-harper-vaporwave . April 1, 2015 . Article . December 7, 2012 . live.
4. Web site: Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016) - | Related | AllMovie . Sep 24, 2020 . www.allmovie.com.
5. Web site: Tech Digest . December 5, 2006 . Top 10 things you never knew about Grand Theft Auto (because you're not brainy enough) . 2012-11-16.
6. Web site: GameSpot . McInnis . Shaun . 2008-04-28 . Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant First Look . 2008-04-29 . Radical Entertainment reps gave us a description of what to expect from the game's plot, and they were sure to point out their goal of using some social satire you wouldn't expect out of a platforming game. Essentially, Cortex has masterminded the creation of a trendy gizmo that everyone simply has to own (think of the iPod). We're told this theme of consumerism is a frequent source of humor in the game's plot, including jokes about SUVs and the skyrocketing price of gas. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081208142558/http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/crashbandicootmindovermutant/news.html?sid=6190016&mode=recent . 2008-12-08.