Thesaurus results for SATIRES

satires

noun

plural of satire

as in parodies

a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general a satire about the music industry in which a handsome but untalented youth is turned into a pop star

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Recent Examples of satires Filmmakers have used the Civil War as a setting for many decades now, inspiring stories of epic military battles, romantic melodramas, and even satires, from sweeping Best Picture winners like Gone With the Wind (1939) to revisionist Westerns like Django Unchained (2012). —

Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026 The role demands charisma, vocal chops, and sharp comedic timing, all deployed within one of the most cynical satires in the musical theater canon. —

Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026 More than a hundred years before the French Revolution, his riotous, scathing satires dared to speak truth to some of the most absolute power in the world. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025 Christopher Guest really took up the mantle of putting real emotional elements in these satires — look at A Mighty Wind. —

Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025 His 1984 metal band mockumentary This is Spinal Tap served as the blueprint for musical documentary satires, getting the sequel treatment earlier this year. —

Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Dec. 2025 An entire section of the Mad exhibit is devoted to movie and television show satires, the majority with art by master caricaturist Mort Drucker. —

Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2025 The name belonged to a London area with printing shops, booksellers and cheap lodgings where impoverished writers churned out pamphlets, satires, political tracts, sensational stories and hack journalism—whatever sold. —

Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025 The show spoofs recent Broadway blockbusters, including celebrity satires and pop culture zings, with hip-hop piano accompaniment. —

Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2025

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While the show featured many of the same characters, its format strayed from the sci-fi space narrative of Spaceballs and instead was a series of parodies, each episode serving as a satirical commentary on several contemporary hits, such as Lord of the Rings, American Idol and Harry Potter.

— Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
Human artists have designed creative parodies of AI slop, but AI lacks the necessary self-awareness to parody itself, even with a human behind the wheel.

— Cath Virginia, The Verge, 11 Apr. 2026