empowering for the public to have the opportunity to see this movie.”
But Caeser wasn’t going to take the North Korea satire as serious as
the communist state did when they allegedly hacked into Sony emails and
aired their dirty laundry for all to see.
“This affects not just movies,” he said, weighing in on the North
Korean cyber-terror campaign that this week successfully shut down
Sony’s planned Christmas release of the screwball satire “The
Interview.”
you what the show is about.
Part satire, part gritty cop drama, “Babylon” drops a stranger — in
this case, American PR wizard Liz Garvey (Brit Marling) — into the
strange land of Scotland Yard.
“Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody . . .
Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower? . . . This
concocted article was below the belt. Good-natured satire is one thing,
but no fair-minded writer would put someone in the position of having
to publicly deny that he mistreats his friends, takes pleasure in
Perhaps Israel’s new career as a novelist will turn that around.
Billed as political satire, “The Global War on Morris” follows a
pharmaceutical salesman as his life is is billed as political satire,
as his pharmaceutical-salesman hero’s life is upended by that amorous
receptionist and a government surveillance program.
- Teyonah Parris
The satire, in theaters Friday, explores what it’s like to be
African-American at a mostly white university. Coco distances herself
from the radical progressives on campus, wanting her race to be a
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Ben Affleck says “Gone Girl,” about a man accused of killing his wife
after she goes missing, could be a dark satire on cable news.
“This particular satire, I guess, is about the cable media, the way it
wants to find sensationalism and use that for sanctimony and it kind of
creates a story if it’s not there and how every American could kind of
Malibu. “I like the play on words,” she says of the name.
But the show isn’t actually a Hollywood satire. Rather, it’s about the
way our culture has made it OK to be proud of being a moron.
Things bog down in this section, taken at least partly from a 1971
novel by Stanislaw Lem, as the film drifts away from the biting showbiz
satire at the beginning.
But the brightly colored, old-school animation style — somewhere
playwrights speculate on the busy songbird’s love life through the
mouths of her exes — in this case, all embodied by the same actor. It’s
billed as “a hilarious satire of fame, innocence, love and douchebags.”
Who could resist?
released track list: the song “Handy” is probably a riff on Pharrell’s
hit “Happy”; “Foil” might be a parody of Lorde’s “Royals”; “Tacky”
could be a satire of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” — and “Word Crimes” is most
likely lampooning the biggest target: Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.”
The American people are not dumb. They are increasingly seeing this
kind of thing for what it is, a bigotry all its own. One legal blog,
the Volokh Conspiracy, this week ran a satire imagining turning around
these kinds of remarks.
Falafelstan.
In a satire in The Huffington Post, Rush — channeling the plummy
British voice of the Vogue editor-in-chief — tells of a disastrous
meeting with badly dressed local leaders:
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Roger that, Patrick. It’s about time ESPN scaled back.
But it’s not another case of ESPN’s commitment to satire-proof excess,
it’s also a case of the needless, heedless eagerness to explain
baseball to us until we scream, “Enough! You win! We’ll change the
Ever since HBO’s “Silicon Valley” premiered last month, it’s become a
parlor game among the tech media to debate the accuracy of the Mike
Judge comedy’s satire of startup culture, from the uniform of its
characters to the Valley’s “change the world” ethos.
And as with every satire, not everyone appreciates the way they’re
portrayed — but the “Silicon Valley” stars insist it’s an homage, not a
critique.
“We had been exposed to the HBO ‘Silicon Valley’ fake version of this,
where they had sort of set it up to satirize that, and now [we’re] at
the real version in New York City and it’s f–king weird,” Miller says
over drinks at the Refinery Hotel. “It’s very similar to what we were
satirizing.”
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viewers per episode and HBO has already renewed it for Season 2 — a
success its stars credit to the show zeroing in on a culturally
relevant topic that is ripe for satire.
“There is this strange moment where people do understand what an
“What kind of world begs to be taken seriously when they turn down $3
billion?” adds Middleditch. “If you’re like, ‘We don’t deserve any
satire or parody,’ I think maybe you do. You just turned down a
country’s wealth.”
T.J. Miller and Thomas Middleditch star in “Silicon Valley.”Photo:
emphasis on his ability as a medium,” he says.
But the show is careful to avoid being a mere satire of spiritualists,
adds Heller.
“That’s not a good thing!” says Scott, who plays unscrupulous aide Dan
Egan on the cutting political satire “Veep.”
Scott is now sipping an oolong tea at Lamill, a posh cafe in the Silver
Cato Institute by P.J. O’Rourke, author and one-time editor of National
Lampoon. It’s almost worth having this bad law just to get this brief,
a masterpiece that underscores the serious contribution satire brings
to politics.
the UN to take over America.”
Laws like Ohio’s, it points out, “do not replace truthiness, satire,
and snark with high-minded ideas and ‘just the facts.’ ” Instead, they
chill debate and “turn commonplace jibber-jabber into a protracted
In his two most important shows, “Your Show of Shows,” 1950-54, and
“Caesar’s Hour,” 1954-57, Caesar displayed remarkable skill in
pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered
a stable of young writers who went on to worldwide fame in their own
right — including Neil Simon and Woody Allen.
Show of Shows” co-star.
Coca and Caesar performed skits that satirized the everyday — marital
spats, inane advertising, strangers meeting and speaking in clichés, a
parody of the Western “Shane” in which the hero was “Strange.” They
to a jockish Superman voiced by Channing Tatum; a line of dialogue goes
“blah blah blah proper name place name back-story stuff”) or feeble
little stabs of satire. Asked for his favorite eatery, everyman Emmet
says, “Any chain restaurant.”
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Dark satire 'Beautiful You' takes on modern erotica
Chuck Palahniuk takes on the culture of modern erotica and fame in
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50 Shades of Grey this isn't. In fact, the book is almost a middle
finger to "mommy porn" and the popularity of modern erotica — while
also being a smart, satirical take on misogyny, fame, the fashion
industry, self-help and science.
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Jon Stewart shelves satire, face time for 'Rosewater'
Jon Stewart never had any intention of casting himself in 'Rosewater,'
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Jon Stewart's humor leavens tough-minded 'Rosewater'
Seriously? Since taking over the deliciously satirical Daily Show from
Craig Kilborn in 1999, and having on everyone from Jake Gyllenhaal to
President Obama, he's remembered for Adam Sandler's comedy?
"People are incredibly dissatisfied. We are parodic. We are in that
world, when you're making satire, that can appeal to people and they
can confuse that with actual ability in the public arena," he says. "I
understand that we're armchair quarterbacks. When are you going to be
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Islamic State group becomes target of Arab satire
Television networks across the Middle East have begun airing cartoons
and comedy programs using satire to criticize the Islamic State group
and its claims of representing Islam. And while not directly
confronting the group's battlefield gains, the shows challenge the
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supporter of the Islamic State group sings a song. Television networks
across the Middle East have begun airing cartoons and comedy programs
using satire to criticize the group and its claim of representing
Islam. And while not directly confronting their battlefield gains, the
shows challenge the legitimacy of the Islamic group and chips away at
In response, television networks across the Middle East have begun
airing cartoons and comedy programs using satire to criticize the group
and its claims of representing Islam. And while not directly
confronting the group's battlefield gains, the shows challenge the
afraid."
Satire has long been a force in Arab culture, beginning first with its
ancient poetry. Indirect criticism once cloaked in self-censorship
exploded out into the open during Arab Spring revolts. Even in the
midst of Syria's bloody civil war, the country's renowned black,
satirical humor has continued.
The Islamic State group, born out the Syrian war, now finds itself
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'Last Magazine' was star reporter's last journalism satire
Author Michael Hastings died at 33 in 2013.
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found in his computer after his death.
It's a semi-autobiographical satire narrated by a smart, ironic young
writer and fact-checker named Michael Hastings. He works at the New
York offices of The Magazine, a fictional version of Newsweek. It's set
them, it's be someone else, right?''
As a satire, it's not in the same league as my favorite novels about
the limits of journalism: Evelyn Waugh's Scoop (1938), Calvin Trillin's
Floater (1980), and Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists (2010).
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Chipotle's farm satire upsets agriculture industry
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Chipotle Mexican Grill has angered farm groups by
producing a satirical television series that criticizes industrial
farming practices.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill has angered some farm groups by producing a satirical
television series that criticizes industrial farming practices. Farmers say
its portrayal of farming is misleading.
The episodes, which run about 30 minutes including commercials (some of
them featuring Chipotle offering consumers the chance to win free
food), satirize the lengths that agribusiness and its image-makers go
to create a positive image for industrial agriculture.
"What I do works best for me," said Sailer, a member of the Iowa Farm
Bureau Federation, who has eaten at Chipotle once but has soured on the
restaurant following the recent satire. "Over the years from my
experience I've evolved into what I think is best for the animals. They
put down big ag but they're big food. I just don't appreciate the way
Katie Stocking, the owner of Happy Medium, a Des Moines advertising
agency, called the satirical series a "great move" for Chipotle. The
restaurant chain and its founder, co-CEO Steve Ells, are able to use
the platform to promote the company's agenda in a way that gets people
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'The Lego Movie' builds family fun from clever satire
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becomes a bit too noisy and frenetic. But overall, the experience is
giddy fun for the kids, and the irreverent dialogue and gently pointed
satire is amusing for the adults who accompany them.
This action-packed story is the first feature-length movie composed
have been terrific — continues his impressive streak. This may well be
his best-ever performance, in a compelling film that works equally well
as a dynamic thriller, a psychological study, a grim satire and a
searing indictment of contemporary journalism.
Weird new form of protest might just work
Protestic tactics now include humor, satire absurdism
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But the march is only one sign — granted, a particularly dramatic one —
of a renaissance in protest tactics that notably also now includes a
new age of humor, satire and absurdism. Send in the clowns. Pranksters
clowned for the environment, particularly the protester dressed in a
polar bear costume who offered himself up for arrest on Wall Street.
What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY's picks for book lovers
include the new novel by best-selling author Jojo Moyes and The Last
Magazine, a journalism satire by Michael Hastings, who was just 33 when
he died in a car wreck.
The Last Magazine by Michael Hastings (Blue Rider, 336 pp.; fiction)
Posthumous, semi-autobiographical satire narrated by a smart, ironic
young writer and fact-checker named Michael Hastings. It's set at a
magazine like Newsweek during the rush to war in Iraq.
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The satire - based on white people's misconceptions about black culture -
will debut at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday and explore "racial
identity in 'post-racial' America."
Dear White People
Cloaked in satire, 'Dear White People' tackles racial identity at a
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joining 16 other films in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category.
Cloaked in satire, the film tackles racial identity at a fictional,
predominantly white Ivy League institution.
anyone outside of their race or culture."
Simien hopes the satirical tone of his film will serve as a gateway to
dialogue, eliciting laughter from the audience while leaving them
thinking about the issues of race.
While working on the screenplay, Simien created the Twitter account
@DearWhitePeople in 2010 as a tool to test Samantha's voice and gauge
how audiences responded to the satirical riffs.
To his surprise, fans have emerged from all types of people.
Today’s Big Winner: People who fear change in college football
It almost reads like a satire headline when you actually write it out,
but this is true: The NCAA Football Rules Committee discussed a
possible rule change that would make it so that offenses had to wait 10
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NEW YORK (AP) — The showbiz satire Birdman won best film at the Gotham
Independent Film Awards, along with best actor for its star, Michael
Keaton.
The new Franco, Rogen film has N. Korea upset, but it's one of many
satires of Kim.
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Though it's hardly the first satire of the dictator, the North Korean
government said there will be 'merciless' retaliation if the film is
released. (USA NOW, USA TODAY)
as planned, there will be "merciless" retaliation against the U.S.
But it's hardly the first satire of Kim Jong Un. Watch USA NOW for
other parodies of North Korea's leader.
The shooting at about 10:30 p.m. came hours after an announcement that
another Atlanta theater would show The Interview, a political satire
film on North Korea that prompted backlash and a cyberattack on Sony
Pictures Entertainment. Midtown is not screening that film.
"It continues to be updated, to the moment," Lane says. As of now, the
showbiz satire includes references to a number of celebs who weren't
yet famous — or even around, in a few cases — when the original play
was produced back in 1982.
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After 10 seasons of political satire and "truthiness," The Colbert
Report is signing off Thursday as host Stephen Colbert makes his way to
the Late Show next year. We round up some of the Comedy Central
Stewart, starring in recurring segments such as "This Week in God" and
"Even Stevphen" alongside Steve Carell. He leaves the show in 2005 to
helm his own news satire show, also on Comedy Central.
Oct. 17, 2005: The Colbert Report premieres
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who show up at a frat house and refuse to do what the frat brothers
tell them to do. Redfoo tweeted his response to the entirely
predictable anger Monday night, calling the song “satire.”
So why are people so annoyed? Let’s start with the song, which features
Fact #3: @PlaynSkillz @LilJon @EnertiaMcFly & I made a comical party
song to satirize the cliche #LiterallyICant. Some get it, some
don’t.
Coming along in the season of Renée Zellweger and J-Law, Lisa Kudrow's
Hollywood satire is more relevant than ever.
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What I particularly like about the new season is that it de-emphasizes
what I thought was worst about the original–the
shooting-fish-in-an-aquarium reality-TV satire–and builds on what was
best: Lisa Kudrow’s microcalibrated performance, and its cringe-making
yet sympathetic depiction of an actress, now around 50, trying to make
Towers on September 23, 2014 in New York City.
The social satire takes austerity measures to a whole new level
We’ve heard of actors dropping massive amounts of weight in the quest
Daniel Radcliffe looks like the Devil in this odd combination of horror film,
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Americans, thoroughly lampooned and authority figures from Dean Wormer
on down thoroughly humiliated. Ghostbusters, which he co-wrote and
starred in, wasn’t just funny; it was a great satire of urban politics,
of horror films, and of message movies; it also stands as an early
indicator of how nerds would go on to dominate American culture. 1993’s
meta-analysis than Saturday Night Live has ever managed. What made the
show — and the characters he played, especially the addled and corrupt
station manager Moe Green — great was that it lovingly satirized the
television that Baby Boomers had grown up with. It managed to mock and
honor icons of an earlier time while exploring how modern media created
The movie-turned-tabloid star takes a crack at the stage in a revival of
David Mamet's showbiz satire
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Speed-The-Plow, which was first staged on Broadway in 1988 with Madonna
in the role of Karen, satirizes the greediness and emptiness of
Hollywood, a theme that seems even more timely today thanks to the
mounting ubiquity of sequels and brainless blockbusters. The action
The elite private school's former student body president explains why she
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discrimination and racism must be addressed.
Let me say first that the photo was strictly satirical. Earlier in the
year, my friends and I had taken a Black Power photo for the yearbook,
with our fists raised, that caused some backlash on campus. Because of
As student body president, and Lawrenceville’s first black woman to
hold the position, my actions were undoubtedly immature. But I hold
firm that the use of satire to bring light to issues is not only
effective, but also sometimes necessary when coping with oppression and
injustice.
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His first novel, a satire of the media, will be published next week. Here’s
what the late former war correspondent would make of the coverage of Sgt.
Bowe Bergdahl—the most important story of his career.
have been disgusted by the exploitation of personal tragedy for craven
ends. What would serve us even better right now is a wider canvas,
someone stepping back to analyze and satirize the whole process.
Someone on the inside, but a rebellious voice, refusing to answer to
anyone but his readers. To state the obvious: it’s one of the many
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The new film is more political satire than action movie — and that's not a
bad thing
The wish fulfillment factor taken out of the equation, RoboCop becomes
less a work of aspirational coolness and more a piece of political
satire — and not necessarily a bad one. In the opening sequence, a
conservative news pundit (Samuel L. Jackson’s Pat Novak) makes a case
that the Dreyfus Act, a law which prohibits robots in American police
been hurled at those of us promoting #CancelColbert? The outrage
surrounding our criticism is about white liberals feeling entitled to
engage in hate speech under the guise of “satire.” These white liberals
are not mad that we pointed out racism, they are mad that they now have
to consider the ways in which they may be racist.
Andy Smith on Twitter argued: “Folks seem to think that you can
effectively address anti-Native American racism by satirically engaging
in anti-Asian or anti-Black racism.” Such an approach presumes
anti-Native American racism isn’t distinct and that it doesn’t need to
“TwitterPolice” by journalists, even as their hashtag and trend was
immediately trolled and the “ColbertNationers” took it upon themselves
to educate “the others” on the Art of Satire.
We have some tips of our own that we’d like to share:
* Satire Lesson 1: If you need to explain whatever it is that you
were trying to do, it’s not working. Your audience is telling you
that it’s broken, it’s old. It needs to be reworked.
* Satire Lesson 2: Tone is not a shield. “Tone” is one element in a
larger construction.
* Satire Lesson 3: If the only people who “get” your satire are
racists — might we suggest some soul searching on your end?
Satire is not making props and metaphors of the history (is it
history?) of oppression. The problem isn’t that we can’t take a joke.
The problem is that white comedians and their fans believe they are
standard must be honored or protected.
The guises of “satire,” “irony,” and “humor” are not shields of armor
against criticism. We did not misunderstand satire, “The Colbert
Report,” or white liberals. They misunderstood us, and we fought back.
Yesterday, the Comedy Central Twitter account for The Colbert Report
posted a very dumb tweet from a very smart satire.
On Wednesday’s Report, Stephen Colbert’s idiot-pundit character gave a
So once again we went from zero to I Demand Someone’s Head in no time
flat. In short order, the hashtag #CancelColbert was trending on
Twitter. That’s right. Nine years of brilliant satire demolishing
hypocrisy and injustice? Eh, fine. Five seconds of reading a tweet?
CANCEL!
Maybe there are people out there who would argue that the full skit
itself was racist–that, in fact, one can never create satirical racism
to lampoon actual racism, because the wrong people might take the wrong
pleasure from it for the wrong reasons. I would probably disagree with
you, but I’d gladly read the argument–it’s a version of the arguments
that people have made against Archie Bunker and George Jefferson and
Eric Cartman and Borat. Satire is not its own defense; it can be badly
executed, or it can be an excuse for actual hate. And if you want to
make that argument about Colbert, go ahead, though I’d say you’ve got
That’s just the media world we live in. Maybe someone like Stephen
Colbert could do a late-night satire on it. And if he does, let me be
the first to demand, in advance, that he be #Fired.
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He also insinuated that he refused to continue to air the show while
watering down its caustic style of political satire. Youssef modeled
his show on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, savaging politicians and
media figures of all stripes. He said the network, Saudi-owned MBC
crossed one too many lines in April 2013, when prosecutors under the
government of Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi issued an arrest warrant
for him. A satirist to the core, Youssef appeared at Egypt’s High Court
wearing an enormous version of a cylindrical black graduation hat Morsi
had worn in Pakistan. He was released the same day on bail.
“The red lines conversely inspire creativity,” said Jonathan Guyer, a
senior editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs and a writer who
studies Egyptian political satire. “This happened under Mubarak.
Because nobody was publishing drawings of Mubarak, everyone found a
workaround to draw Mubarak. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people on
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her first menstrual blood is showing through her skirt; she bolts in
shame. Bad Words seems to be heading into the creepy realm of a
sociopath’s case study, yet it’s presented as a breezy satire about a
rebel against the system. It must be the Dictionary-Industrious
Complex.
The best Simpsons episodes aren’t only hilarious—they’re also poignant,
showcasing the big, beating heart beneath the series’ occasionally
caustic satire. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the show’s early
flashback episodes, including ”The Way We Was,” ”I Married Marge,” and
”And Maggie Makes Three”—the latter of which ends with what may be the
A two-part comedic homage to Dallas‘s ”Who shot J.R.?” stunt, ”WSMB?”
is perhapsThe Simpsons‘s most grandiose pop moment ever. An atypical
outing, too: Satiric potshots (O.J. Simpson, Madonna, and Twin Peaks)
and gut-busting randomness (Moe’s marathon lie-detector session is a
classic) are subordinate to a methodically plotted murder mystery that,
Airdate: March 11, 1993
This episode is virtually flawless, the product of a series at the
height of its creative powers—when the satire was savage and relevant,
when names like John Swartzwelder, George Meyer, and Conan O’Brien were
relatively unknown, when Maude Flanders lived. So it is that we find
braces/DENTAL PLAN!”); Grampa rattling on about wearing onions on his
belt. ”Last Exit” is a glorious symphony of the high and the low, of
satirical shots at unions and sweet ruminations on the humiliations of
adolescence (as evidenced by Lisa, who copes with a medieval mouth
contraption), and, of course, all those ”D’oh!”s. The things, in other
Fu Pandas. Directing The Interview with his longtime writing pal Evan
Goldberg, Rogen serves up the usual farrago of sexual outrage and
guy-bonding, only this time in the guise of nervy satire using real
names. (When Sacha Baron Cohen played The Dictator, he made fun of a
whole swath of Middle East tyrants, not just one.)
Maybe you will love The Interview — if you can ever see the movie — as
much as some people hate or fear it. But if you’re hoping for any
cogent political satire here, then the joke’s on you.
Correction: This article originally misidentified The Interview’s
took the show’s excellence for granted, agreeing that some day we’d
look back on the double whammy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
as the golden age of TV’s singeing singing satire.
That age ends now. Colbert is gone from TV until September, when he
Without Stewart, of course, The Colbert Report would not have existed.
Both shows skewer politicians, pop culture and that inexhaustible
source of satire, the Fox News Channel. (It’s amazing that, with the
same butts for their humor, the two shows rarely cracked the same
jokes.) But the on-air Stewart was himself, not “Jon Stewart.” Colbert,
Albania.
Wag the Dog is intelligent satire in contrast to Black Sheep’s inane
Looney Toon-esque shenanigans. Released one month before the Monica
Lewinsky scandal, the movie had Roger Ebert perceptively noting, “It is
getting harder and harder for satire to stay ahead of reality.” Rather
than dishing up an inspiring good-guys-win narrative, it reminds the
audience — American voters — how gullible we can be in the face of an
in the spirit of undun, but it’s not just about just one kind of
character, we create quite a few different characters in this record.
It’s satire, but in that satire it’s an analysis of some of the
stereotypes perpetuated in–not only the hip-hop community, but in the
community.”
If that didn’t tip Thought Catalog editors off to the fact that the
post was satire, maybe some of the included suggestions should have.
The highlights:
I can’t believe my eyes misc, I was bored one evening a week ago and
so I wrote a satire article from the perspective of a twenty
something feminist woman and sent it in to Thought Catalog,
A few minutes ago I got an email saying they published the article