Mr Harney, a trade union activist and campaigner on various matters
concerning the Irish in Britain, said that there were "lines to be
drawn when it comes to comedy and satire".
"This killed one million people, wiped out an entire Gaelic speaking
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RICHARD Linklater's 12-yearsin-the-making Boyhood won top honours at
the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards, while Hollywood rallied against
recent threats to the art of satire.
Boyhood won best movie, drama and best director for Linklater, as well
lawyer Amal Clooney.
The recent terrorist attack in Paris at the offices of the satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo hung heavily over the show.
That's absolutely true. The actual attack was about silencing
intellectual satire with physical violence. It was a hammer of obtuse
brutality crushing a voice of creative democracy.
MUCH has been said and much more written about the murderous attack on
the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week. The bloody
slaughter was far from isolated, there have been over 70 journalists
killed in the line of duty in the last year, the majority of those in
loved and felt very strongly about.
The magazine's particular style, at times sexually crude satire, is not
my thing. It wouldn't be something I'd buy, read or find funny.
to our profession. Cartoons as form of expression can on the face of it
sound childlike and frivolous. However, you've only to look at the back
catalogue of work of our own Ian Knox to see the power political satire
can wield as a form of expression.
inevitable happens. Witherspoon easily carries the film from beginning
to end with her best performance since Tracey Flick in Alexander
Payne's superb high-school satire, Election.
Much like Cheryl's real journey, Wild is occasionally hard going. Yet
Opinion
Culture, race, religion blur the lines of satire
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Islamic humour should tell the truth, not be offensive and not contain
unIslamic material. That would appear to leave little room for the
French and British traditions of satire, which include organised
religion among their many subjects.
It is therefore insulting to Muslims to satirise the prophet Mohammed.
To depict him in human form is seen as heresy. All rather medieval, you
might think, until you realise that blasphemy is still a crime in
Cartoonists (and columnists) make little change to society. They merely
offer a perspective as a reference point for others to locate and
define their own opinions. Satire is one approach to comment, but there
is a fine line between satire and insult. Cultural, racial and
religious sensitivities can often blur that line.
Some, like the producers of Charlie Hebdo, argue that there should be
no limits to satire. Others, in this country for example, believe that
the line should be drawn at a proposal to produce a satirical
television series on the Irish Famine.
whose children are subjected to the word as a term of abuse in schools.
Clarkson, who is set to host the BBC's top-rating satire show Have I
Got News For You, raised more eyebrows with his column in Top Gear
magazine.
News
Star turns shine in biting satire on modern Ireland
Star turns shine in biting satire on modern Ireland
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part of a bigoted town meeting about the affair during which Lally, the
outsider, is royally insulted. Nobody is spared and in the second half,
there is a satirical spoof of Sinn Fein and the party's awkward attempt
to gloss over the Troubles.
Arts
Cult Movie: Satire and speed in 70s classic
Fergal Hallahan
Cult Movie: Satire and speed in 70s classic Kames Caan in Rollerball
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Cult Movie: Satire and speed in 70s classic
It's also a straight-ahead testosterone-fuelled sports movie
first appear – initially it comes across as a standard enough
futuristic sports movie but peer a little closer and a smart little
political satire starts to emerge.
James Caan is Jonathan, the world's number one player of Rollerball – a
unquestioning members of the community to offer an alternative opinion.
It's also, for those who prefer not to see the satirical stuff, a
straight-ahead testosterone-fuelled sports movie that delivers enough
crunching action sequences to satisfy the most demanding of macho movie
Not Safe For Work plays like a darkly humorous cross between The
Office, Shameless and '90s series This Life, and real public sector
workers are likely to find its workplace-based satire cringe-inducingly
accurate.
Of course it is worth remembering Irish author Jonathan Swift penned A
Modest Proposal about eating babies which laid into the
conditions around poverty in this country. Comedy and satire need to be
edgy.
Well done, that’s great news for the Féile bank balance and for the
comedic hordes who relish in insult, satire and shock humour and that’s
their right of course. And as Gerry Adams also pointed out in the same
article “Féile an Phobail has a very, very, very good record of
“We read Gulliver's Travel and we loved all the stories, the visual
aspects, the satire and all of that, but we were also really interested
in what Jonathan Swift didn't write about – Gulliver's return home to
his family after his travels,” says co-writer Shelley Atkinson, who
connotation's for us who live in a very religious focused environment.”
Like Swift's novel, Gulliver is a satire on human nature but, as in all
Big Telly productions, it reflects upon Northern Ireland society.
“We're working closely with a fight choreographer, film-maker and
composer to make a piece of theatre which is visual and action packed,
contains satire and wit, and lots of laugh out loud moments,” says Zoe.
The show also stars Bryan Quinn (Gulliver), Patrick J O'Reilly (son
The north's Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín said Friel's plays were
grounded in a familiar reality "yet they had layers of humour, sadness,
satire, tragedy and hope".
“Friel belongs to the canon of great Irish writers. His affection for
The massacre at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in
Paris was not only a barbarous act of terrorism but an assault on
freedom of expression, one of the fundamental human rights. The
A small-circulation magazine that often attracted more public
condemnation than praise, Charlie Hebdo is part of a tradition of
robust French satire that stretches back to before the revolution, when
scandal sheets mocked the sex lives of the royal family. Best known for
its cartoons, Charlie Hebdo has caused offence to people of various
lampooning the prophet Muhammad; some of them depicting him naked.
Some of the criticism of Charlie Hebdo’s provocative satire was
legitimate and its cartoons caused real offence to many people, some of
them members of minorities already under pressure in France. It is one
thing to argue about whether particular expressions of satire are
appropriate or tasteful but quite another to claim a right not to be
offended. The massacre at the magazine’s offices was something of a
journalists and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo had the right to publish
it and they share no responsibility for the attack that killed them.
Their murders must not be allowed to intimidate satirists elsewhere
from tackling sensitive issues and their right to offend must be
defended with courage and vigour.
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Martyn Turner: ‘Charlie Hebdo fought extremism with laughter, satire and free
speech’
To this particular and peculiar brand of Islamania, Charlie Hebdo
committed the greatest crime. They fought extremism with laughter,
satire and free speech. When I am in France, Charlie Hebdo is my weekly
of choice. It is far livelier than Canard Enchaîné and far less
intimidating than Sine Hebdo (itself a breakaway from Charlie Hebdo).
In France they take satire very seriously. They are devoutly
anti-clerical in the broadest sense and have been for a century or so.
The fight for the freedom of the press was fought against the church
Charlie and the other magazines see it as their mission in life to
exploit the boundaries of taste and freedom as much as they can. So
when Islam came into this culture it was treated by the satirists in
exactly the same way they had been treating other religions for
decades. When you add to this a large dollop of the French cartoonists’
wonder at the justice of their possessions. Swift’s polemic on
Ireland’s administration by the English is well known in the vicious
satire of A Modest Proposal, which suggested the slaughter of Ireland’s
children as a remedy for famine. Hunger and want are never far from
Welch’s story, confirmation in itself of the deeper miseries that
Is it possible, however, to express true solidarity in Ireland, as your
newsroom staff did, with the phrase “Je suis Charlie” when the
publication of material satirising any religious beliefs is open to
prosecution under our blasphemy law? It is a law that criminalises
freedom of expression by giving preference to religious beliefs.
I agree with you that it is “one thing to argue about whether
particular expressions of satire are appropriate or tasteful but quite
another to claim a right not to be offended”. That is why the offense
of blasphemy needs to be taken out of our constitution.
downright racism?
The atrocity in Paris must be condemned. However satirists and
cartoonists should not go so far as to intentionally offend, insult or
incite people of other creeds and beliefs. Everyone has the right to
In the wake of the murders of the Charlie Hebdo team, it is imperative
that there is a united front in condemning murder and violence as a
response to satire, no matter how crude, vulgar and provocative the
satire may be.
Charlie Hebdo is equally scathing about all the major world religions.
There is merit in this. Appeasement of the most violent elements of any
grouping inevitably leads to disaster. But writer Will Self, who was
once a satirical cartoonist, has another take.
“. . . the test I apply to something to see whether it truly is satire
derives from HL Mencken’s definition of good journalism: It should
‘afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted’. The trouble with a
lot of so-called ‘satire’ directed against religiously motivated
extremists is that it’s not clear who it’s afflicting, or who it’s
comforting.”
Pope Francis has joined in the condemnation of the murders. He himself
had featured on the cover of the satirical magazine, in a phone call to
God. The image is a riff on a video that went viral in France, of a
participant in a reality TV show who was stunned that another
Shocking as it is, the fatal attack on the newsroom of Paris’s leading
satirical news weekly is a not an isolated incident, but rather an
extreme example of the brutal, often violent reality for thousands of
news professionals worldwide.
democratic societies, the world over. An attack on a publication like
Charlie Hebdo – unafraid, imperturbable, unwavering in its acerbic
political satire and penetrating social commentary – is intended as an
attack on the values our societies uphold. That we are no more damning
to others as we are to ourselves is a philosophy that has kept Europe
Editorial
The massacre at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in
Paris was not only a barbarous act of terrorism but an assault on
freedom of expression, one of the fundamental human rights. The
A small-circulation magazine that often attracted more public
condemnation than praise, Charlie Hebdo is part of a tradition of
robust French satire that stretches back to before the revolution, when
scandal sheets mocked the sex lives of the royal family.
lampooning the prophet Muhammad; some of them depicting him naked.
Some of the criticism of Charlie Hebdo’s provocative satire was
legitimate and its cartoons caused real offence to many people, some of
them members of minorities already under pressure in France. It is one
thing to argue about whether particular expressions of satire are
appropriate or tasteful but quite another to claim a right not to be
offended.
and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo had the right to publish it and they
share no responsibility for the attack that killed them. Their murders
must not be allowed to intimidate satirists elsewhere from tackling
sensitive issues and their right to offend must be defended with
courage and vigour.
forest northeast of Paris
* Martyn Turner: ‘Charlie Hebdo fought extremism with laughter,
satire and free speech’
* ‘I heard screams. People were running. There were no sirens yet’
* Cartoonists worldwide pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo
as fear-inducing as verbal or written threats. Advocates of free speech
say allowing Elonis’s conviction to stand will have a chilling effect
on online discussion and could threaten artistic works and satirical
writing.
Under such a contextual interpretation, controversial artworks or works
of satire would also likely be exempt from being seen as “threats”.
Digital activity
Nevertheless, it was suggested that some production teams came to
understand that, to be on the safe side, same-sex marriage could not be
discussed on air “without a bigot”, as satire site Waterford Whispers
News put it in a headline.
Henderson and Mahon are personable performers who give the gags all the
benefit of their consummate eye acting: widening, darting and rolling
through a mild satire on body image, domestic turbulence and food
fascism. There are hints, though, that Gallagher considered something
slightly more nutritious: a recessionary backdrop that is more famine
Islamophobic Charlie Hebdo cartoons.
Satirising hegemonic power is courageous but satirising the victims of
that power is cowardly. Alas, this cowardice is all too often mistaken
for courage.
The words of the novelist Saladin Ahmed are worth pondering: “In a
field dominated by privileged voices, it’s not enough to say ‘Mock
everyone!’ In an unequal world, satire that mocks everyone equally ends
up serving the powerful. And in the context of brutal inequality, it is
worth at least asking what pre-existing injuries we are adding our
the Taoiseach in Paris on Sunday, at the march for freedom of speech,
and to show solidarity with the 12 people murdered at the offices of
the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, (and the four civilians killed
at a kosher grocery and the police officer who was fatally shot last
week). Incredibly, officials from Saudi Arabia also attended the march,
expression are values we in Europe hold dear,’’ he added.
Tradition of satire
Brendan Howlin said the innocent civilians murdered were guilty of
nothing other than availing of their freedom of expression by engaging
in the French tradition of satire.
“The killers also targeted French police officers who were carrying out
Mr Ray also drew comparisons with the humorous ridiculing of Mr
Emerson, and the often near-the-knuckle satire of French magazine
Charlie Hebdo — one of the targets of last week’s shocking terror
attacks.
generations, should be poked and prodded. But for some keen to
criticise Islam, their enthusiasm is born from their own intolerance of
that religion, not an enthusiasm for the values of satire itself.
In the aftermath of the killings in Paris, Salman Rushdie said:
“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern
weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms . . . I stand with
Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has
always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and
stupidity.” He should know.
Charlie Hebdo by Cherif and Said Kouachi, saying it was to avenge the
honour of the Prophet Muhammad, a frequent target of the magazine’s
satire.
“We know that Cherif Kouachi has stayed in Yemen in 2011 and that he
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No shame in laughing at famine satire
Rush to condemn a proposed Channel 4 comedy has unleashed avalanche of
‘Is even the idea of a comedy set in 19th-century Ireland such a
travesty? Who is to know what could be done with such a notion in the
hands of a skilled comedy writer or satirist?’ Above, a special
commemorative memorial day walk and wreath laying ceremony at the
Famine Memorial at Custom House Quay. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
‘Is even the idea of a comedy set in 19th-century Ireland such a
travesty? Who is to know what could be done with such a notion in the
hands of a skilled comedy writer or satirist?’ Above, a special
commemorative memorial day walk and wreath laying ceremony at the
Famine Memorial at Custom House Quay. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
I did not feel any great shame, over 15 years ago, in laughing at a
satirical song about the Irish Famine of the mid-19th century, and I
was not alone. Under the title The Potatoes aren’t looking the best, it
was sung, or more accurately spat out, late at night at a concert in
The craic we had the day we died for Ireland.
What one person finds amusing in any satire of Irish history, another
might find egregiously offensive. The rush to condemn a proposed comedy
by the writer Hugh Travers – what he suggests will be “black humour”
Is even the idea of a comedy set in 19th-century Ireland such a
travesty? Who is to know what could be done with such a notion in the
hands of a skilled comedy writer or satirist? I certainly wouldn’t be
averse to, for example, David McSavage’s take on 19th-century Irish
history given his admirable track record to date in satirising Irish
historic pieties and peculiarities; equally, there would be many who
would find that prospect abhorrent.
The Irish experience of famine has generated satire and comedy in the
past. One of Ireland’s most celebrated satirists, Jonathan Swift,
travelled extensively throughout this island in the famine-afflicted
decade of the 1720s where he witnessed starvation and desperate
administrative and moral failure to reform the country.
Over 200 years later, Flann O’Brien worked on a satirical novel, never
finished, about an American millionaire who sought to prevent more
Irish famines and destitute Irish emigrants coming to the US by
marketing, with the motel’s restaurant called The Famine Room. Poet
Paul Durcan was also on hand in 1987 with the poem What Shall I Wear,
Darling, to The Great Hunger, his satire on a middle-class couple
preparing to attend Tom MacIntyre’s adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s
poem at the Peacock Theatre.
In truth, some of the supposedly serious initiatives regarding memory
of the famine have been more farcical than any comedy or satire.
In 1998, the year after the 150th anniversary of the height of the
Like many other German newspapers, Hamburger Morgenpost has printed
cartoons of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo after the deadly
attack on Wednesday in Paris.
Take Omar Mahmood, a Muslim student at the University of Michigan, who
wrote a gentle satire on political correctness, Do the Left Thing,
where he described the “violence” done daily to him as a left-handyd
(sic) person in a world of right-handedness.
It should have ended there. Instead, Mahmood’s apartment door was
vandalised by outraged students, who found his satire “triggering”.
Subsequently, he was fired from his job as a columnist with a student
the possibility of civilised debate.
Some of the examples he gives make Mahmood’s satire seem anodyne. For
example, “UCLA students staged a sit-in to protest microaggressions
such as when a professor corrected a student’s decision to spell the
Along with the puns and slapstick, it also sometimes tries its hand at
modern satire. When entering a hipster café, the game warns that “Guys
with beards don’t like being disturbed from their coffee”. Aint that
the truth.
“The gentleman courtier is not subject to himself,” wrote Philibert de
Vienne in his mid-sixteenth-century satire, The Philosopher of the
Court, “if it is necessary to laugh, he laughs, if it is necessary to
grieve, he cries, if it is necessary to eat, he eats, and if it is
news stories.
Facebook said “satirical” content, such as news stories “intended to be
humorous, or content that is clearly labelled as satire”, should not be
affected.
Gun Street Girl may well be a comically implausible tale, but its roots
in historical fact renders it a superb satire of its time and place.
Declan Burke’s current novel is The Lost and the Blind (Severn House)
discrimination.”
Satire is valuable, said Eddie Doyle, RTÉ’s head of comedy, since its
undermines prejudice. “That’s the function of comedians, almost to be
the advance party testing the frontiers of what is sayable in society.”
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* Big ideas for 2015: a famine sitcom, music, running, body painting
and food
created a tragedy that was both heart breaking and absurd.
Yan Lianke, never a writer given to coyness, in this satiric allegory
about a community in which innocent greed, selling one’s own blood, was
viciously exploited by heartless crooks. Once the deaths began to
Four Books, due out next month in an English translation by Carlos
Rojas, confronts his country’s most shocking taboo, The Great Famine.
It is heavy duty polemical satire at its most candid.
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weapons were all ideas. They were deployed in poetry and plays, songs
and speeches. But among the skirmishers in this intellectual conflict,
there was also a monthly satirical magazine called the Lepracaun.
First published in 1905, it lasted 10 years, during which time it
Leprechaun, which somebody had sent him. But the nearest any scholars
have come to connecting him with the editorial production was his own
stated concerns at the possibility that a satirical poem in the
magazine, signed only by the name “Joyce”, would be mistaken for his
work.
Even by the standards of its time, the Lepracaun was no Charlie Hebdo.
Fitzpatrick’s satire was more gentle than savage, and after a 15-year
hiatus in which the Irish market had been without any rival to Punch,
it was also very popular.
Gentle as it might be, the Lepracaun was not afraid to take on big
targets on occasion. Among its apolitical satires, for example, was a
well-aimed shot at Guinness, after that brewing behemoth doubled
profits in a short period by forcing publicans not to stock rival
Jon Stewart leaves ‘The Daily Show’ on a career high
Show became the satirical prism through which many viewed the US political
process
Jon Stewart laughs during a taping break while interviewing President
Barack Obama on the set of The Daily Show in 2012. Stewart, whose show
became a nightly home to sharp-edged political satire, has announced
that he would leave the show later this year. Photograph: Damon
Winter/The New York Times
Jon Stewart laughs during a taping break while interviewing President
Barack Obama on the set of The Daily Show in 2012. Stewart, whose show
became a nightly home to sharp-edged political satire, has announced
that he would leave the show later this year. Photograph: Damon
Winter/The New York Times
say that it “will endure for years to come.”
In becoming America’s satirist in chief, Stewart imbued the program
with a personal sense of justice, even indignation. For a segment of
the audience that had lost its faith in broadcast and print news
Stewart (52) became the host of The Daily Show in 1999, entering with
the identity of a hard-working standup, if not necessarily an astute
political commentator. A decade and a half later, his satirical
sensibility helped turn The Daily Show, where he also serves as an
executive producer, into an influential platform for news and media
Daily Show correspondent under Stewart.
So did John Oliver, now the host of HBO’s news satire program Last Week
Tonight, and Larry Wilmore, who now hosts Comedy Central’s Nightly
Show, following The Daily Show.
For a generation of television viewers, Stewart and his “Indecision”
coverage of presidential and congressional elections became the
satirical prism through which they viewed the American political
process.
Ireland’s ‘Charlie Hebdo’: the remarkable run of Dublin Opinion
Founded in 1922, the satirical magazine poked fun at governments for almost
50 years
Felix M Larkin
Eamon de Valera was often the butt of Dublin Opinion’s satire. When he
sought to replace PR with the “straight vote” system, this cartoon,
capitalising on de Valera’s reputation as a maths genius, had him
upwards and distorts the text above it, with the caption “High Treason”
Eamon de Valera was often the butt of Dublin Opinion’s satire. When he
sought to replace PR with the “straight vote” system, this cartoon,
capitalising on de Valera’s reputation as a maths genius, had him
When recently I published an essay on Ireland’s most celebrated
satirical magazine, Dublin Opinion, little did I know that soon
afterwards the tragic Charlie Hebdo massacre would spark off a lively
debate about the extent to which a cartoon may offend.
from the scene, and it did not have the measure of the next generation.
Moreover, its humour now seemed very timid compared to the vicious
satire in, for example, the British magazine Private Eye and the BBC
television programme That was the week that was. Kelly and Collins sold
up in 1968, though the journal struggled on under new ownership for a
But far from being art, the Signature was a gaudily blinged-up version
of a Nokia, and the entire Vertu concept seemed like an exercise in
satire, an elaborate joke at the expense of rich fools. The most
expensive “Platinum Diamond” model cost $35,275 for goodness sake.
bratty Bart, overachieving Lisa and baby Maggie.
The show was a smart social satire built around crass characters and it
became the longest-running sitcom on American television.
The angry website Kyriarchy and Privilege 101 does not appear to be
attempting satire when, among its list of “common trigger warnings”, it
includes “discussions of sex (even consensual)”, “slimy things” and
“trypophobia” [pathological fear of objects with irregular patterns of
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Bugle podcast: political news with satire
John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman send-up everyone from Putin to Proust
judges himself.” It’s the kind of sentence that might pass muster in a
why-oh-why column but on air sounds like a sub-Oprah platitude. John
Murray’s cheerily cheesy comic monologues sound like searing satire in
comparison.
Tara Brady
Billy Wilder satire, Russian-style? Yuriy Bykov’s The Fool
Billy Wilder satire, Russian-style? Yuriy Bykov’s The Fool
Film Title: The Fool
As with his previous thriller, The Mayor, writer and director Bykov
incorporates accessible genre beats into a dark satire that might have
pleased Billy Wilder. The young Russian auteur skilfully switches
between a crawling bureaucratic pace redolent of Milos Forman’s
The poet skewers traditional depictions of Irish country life and highlights
the era’s sexual sterility in his long satirical work
Sat, May 16, 2015, 01:00
These mocking lines from Patrick Kavanagh’s long poem The Great Hunger
echo in their dark satire Myles na gCopaleen’s attack, in An Béal
Bocht, on the representation of Irish rural life. Kavanagh is the first
English-language poet of real stature to emerge from a class that was
was I too soft? Too much of a mom and not enough of a career woman?”
She referred to her satirical portrayal on a July 2008 cover of the New
Yorker magazine as a terrorist.
“It was a cartoon drawing of me with a huge afro and a machine gun.
Now, yeah, it was satire, but if I’m really being honest, it knocked me
back a bit. It made me wonder: ‘Just how are people seeing me?’”
The three day itinerary included 15 events ranging from big political
debates to music and film premieres, art workshops, pop up protests,
and political theatre and satire.
The festival started life in 2014 as one of the City of Culture Made in
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Death threats for Saudi satirist who fights Islamic State with humour
Sketch show recently shown on Saudi television lampoons holy warriors
Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 22:41
Satirist Nasser al-Qasabi. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Satirist Nasser al-Qasabi. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Al-Qasabi says his show’s message, though presented in the form of
satire, is deadly serious. He says he has been unfazed by threats he
has received from the militants’ supporters since the broadcast.
Perhaps the key to this paradox lies in the two faces of indifference.
In the most sustained satiric attack on the culture of the new State,
Denis Johnson’s 1929 expressionist play The Old Lady Say No!, the
second act is a burlesque on the arts scene.
This is a very good description of what we might expect in a
revolutionary State, an ideological regime using the arts to bolster
its authority. And yet, as satire, it is wide of the mark. There was no
Deserving Artists Act. There was not even a minister for arts and
crafts – or even so much as a humble parliamentary secretary.
siblings, opens as tasty counter-programming to Star Wars Episode 7.
Her recent book, Yes, Please, did nicely indeed. The intriguing,
star-packed satire Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp will be
on Netflix next week.
If Dave McSavage, whose Savage Eye features Mick “the Bull” Daly, a
searing satire on the traditional Irish publican, didn’t write that gem
down, he’s missing a trick.
park surreal by definition, while the substandard ones are so grim –
wet garden sheds billed as Arctic “log cabins”, rubbery hot dogs
smeared with yellow gunk – that they move firmly beyond satire.
As a result, Banksy’s pop-up “Dismaland Bemusement Park”, a giant art
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Water charges, beyond satire
Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 01:03
At least 12 people have been killed in a shooting incident at the Paris
office of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, police have said.
Witnesses and police officials said that multiple gunmen were involved,
one rocket launcher.
Armed gunmen face police officers near the offices of the French
satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris
Handout photo taken with permission from the Twitter feed of @Lestatmp
of the scene in Paris, France
Handout photo taken with permission from the Twitter feed of
@julienrbcc of the scene in Paris, France
French cartoonist Charb, publishing director of French satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo, poses for photographs at their offices in Paris, in this
September 19, 2012 file photo
A journalist works in the Paris newsroom of French satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo, in this February 9, 2006 file photo
The scene in Paris
Twelve people were killed when the masked gunmen armed with
Kalashnikovs burst into the offices of the French satirical weekly
newspaper yesterday morning and opened fire indiscriminately.
A hostage was seized in a town northeast of Paris on Friday during a huge
manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical
weekly, according to a police source.
Paris, Friday Jan. 9, 2015. French security forces swarmed this small
industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a
pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of a satirical
newspaper. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Police vans are lined up in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast Paris, as
NUJ members and dignitaries will gather at the Dubh Linn garden in the
castle grounds to honour the memory of those murdered this week -
including the staff of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - and to stand
in solidarity with the people of France.
family drama The Man in the Moon. She had an amped-up charm that
translated just as well to comedies such as Alexander Payne's 1999
high-school satire Election (her portrayal of the nightmarishly
ambitious student Tracy Flick was nominated for a Golden Globe) and the
pastel-hued Legally Blonde, the 2001 film that brought her
In a week dominated by the dreadful events in Paris, there wasn't really too
much to brighten the mood. That 12 people should be shot dead in the offices
of a satirical magazine is utterly outrageous, an assault on the freedoms we
in the West take for granted but which clearly haven't taken hold among the
crazier adherents of a creed around which critics must tread very warily.
Dr Gavin Jennings
Satirical website Waterford Whispers joked about the Irish habit of
over-indulging at Christmas, with a skit about an Irishman slowly
easing himself back into work who claimed he would not be back to full
of the head of state had crossed the line from humour to "toxic bullying".
Callan said that in a week when satire was a huge talking point around
the world in light of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, it was
"petty" for the Abbot of Glenstal Abbey in Co Limerick to criticise him
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after the deadly attacks by
Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France
today, with people queuing up to buy copies to support the satirical weekly.
“I’ve never bought it before, it’s not quite my political stripes, but
Cumhuriyet newspaper said police allowed distribution to proceed after
verifying that the satirical French newspaper's controversial cover
featuring the Prophet Muhammad was not published.
intelligence.
No one person - or office - can be above satire or ridicule,
particularly those in authority.
In a week in which we are mourning people who have died for the right
to free speech, the complaints of Abbot Hederman about harmless satire
directed at his powerful friend seem little more than petty and
irrelevant.
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The satirical website Waterford Whispers News was spot on with its recent
headline: 'Juice Diet Sparks Verbal Diarrhoea Epidemic'.
But prosecutors' spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said the Belgian probe had
been under way from before the January 7 attack on French satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Hundreds of Iranians have demonstrated outside the French Embassy in
Tehran to protest against the publication of a cartoon depicting the
Prophet Muhammad on the cover of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Demonstrators, mainly students, chanted "Death to France" alongside the
and it needs to be tightened up," she said.
The attack against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last month
have sparked the recent debates over the visa waiver system.
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Jeremy Clarkson backs out of hosting TV satire
By Robert Dex – 10 April 2015 03:00 AM
Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has pulled out of his planned appearance
hosting BBC satirical show Have I Got News For You.
The star was due to appear later this month - marking his first BBC
Yet when Barry Murphy as Angela Merkel on Irish Pictorial Weekly, calls
us all pixies every week, he makes us feel like the most stupid,
useless creatures in the whole of Europe. This satire is brilliant and
the Merkel sketches make for some of the most uncomfortable comedy I
have seen in a long time. You want to laugh, but you know you'll only
Tara Flynn in Dulux spot
“I try to tackle issues that make me cross through satirical videos or
little sketches about issues like racism or equality,” Tara told the
Herald.
conference.
A woman who was fired and humiliated for attempting satire on racism.
A writer character-assassinated for making up a quote.
those affected by it."
The attack comes after 17 people were killed at a satirical magazine
and a kosher grocery in Paris in January by a radicalised trio,
catapulting France's capital on to the front pages of newspapers around
Last January we had the attack by the same fundamentalists on the
offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
On the same day as the Tunisian massacre, another Islamic fanatic cut
The Apres Match team are, finally, to be given their own stand-alone comedy
show on RTE. Funny, satirical and inventive way beyond the confines of their
sports-based show, Gary Cooke (left) and the lads have consistently proven
themselves to be the most skilled comedy writers working on Irish television.
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Mexican ambassador wanted meeting on Garthgate satire
Kirsty Blake Knox – 08 July 2015 03:00 AM
process. It would be a conflict of interests, but he really persisted.
"You can't meet up with the people you are satirising - it would
definitely affect your writing," she added.
This is what you call satire, David?
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David yesterday defended his portrayal of Joe by saying that "we open
him up, and rip him apart. That's what good satire does".
And just to show how incisive and surgical his satire can be, McSavage
turned his attentions to Brian McFadden and Vogue Williams. "Brian
deserves to be put on trial for crimes against music ... and Vogue?
(She's) a strange looking creature that belongs in a zoo."
If those stupendously unfunny comments are "satire", we can safely say
that the next series of The Savage Eye will be the least
eagerly-awaited show ever...
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This is what you call satire, David?
20 July 2015 03:00 AM
on The Savage Eye, but still refers to the RTE star as "a gobshite". David
yesterday defended his portrayal of Joe by saying that "we open him up, and
rip him apart. That's what good satire does".
And just to show how incisive and surgical his satire can be, McSavage
(right) turned his attentions to Brian McFadden and Vogue Williams.
"Brian deserves to be put on trial for crimes against music ... and
Vogue? (She's) a strange looking creature that belongs in a zoo."
If those stupendously unfunny comments are "satire", we can safely say
that the next series of The Savage Eye will be the least
eagerly-awaited show ever...
squealing to our rescue.
Mock the man if you wish — and plenty, including satire show Irish
Pictorial Weekly, have — for his Blackrock College/Trinity background
(some think he was the inspiration for Paul Howard’s Ross O’Carroll