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as in parodist
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as in essayist
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Recent Examples of satirist
Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist, author, playwright, and political satirist who documented and defined a particular strain of 20th century Jewish-American experience in a career that extended over nine decades since the 1940s, died today at his home in upstate New York.
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Trump’s win or loss doesn’t change our job as political satirists: to jump down the throat of what government is and isn’t doing right.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.
—Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025
Jules Feiffer, the provocative satirist, cartoonist, playwright and 1960s counterculturist who wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols‘ classic Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman‘s Popeye, has died.
—Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
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Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Trump’s win or loss doesn’t change our job as political satirists: to jump down the throat of what government is and isn’t doing right.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.
—Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025
Jules Feiffer, the provocative satirist, cartoonist, playwright and 1960s counterculturist who wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols‘ classic Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman‘s Popeye, has died.
—Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirist
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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She’s been an opinion writer here at The Times (from 2005 to 2016) and a personal essayist of sometimes provocative proclivities for decades.—
Charles Arrowsmith,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Vara, a novelist and tech journalist, began experimenting with A.I. products in early 2021.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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Set in a quaint New England colonial town, Allie & Andi follows a best-selling novelist (Shields) who forms an unlikely alliance with an aspiring writer to find the killer of a close friend.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.—
Matt Wolf,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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In last night’s cold open, the SNL cast member James Austin Johnson, the show’s resident Donald Trump impressionist, responded to the dig.—
Esther Zuckerman,
The Atlantic,
6 Apr. 2025
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While Steve Martin didn’t change his mind about not being an impressionist, Gaffigan embraces his Kirkland attire, setting the stage for some more friends to kick off the season.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2024
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The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with pneumonia, Finn's literary agent, Ron Gwiazda, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.—
Laura Collins-Hughes,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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And that’s the vision these storytellers are modeling.—
Stephanie Long,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tribeca Studios has partnered with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund to launch Colectivo, a fellowship and filmmaking program created to support the next generation of Latino storytellers.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.—
Timothy O'Grady,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 July 2024
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However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 May 2024
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“Satirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirist. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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