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Recent Examples of satirist
John Heartfield, the pseudonym of German artist Helmut Herzfeld, was a leading photographic satirist who was fiercely opposed to Hitler and his Nazi party.
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Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
Alexandra Tanner’s Worry is soon headed to a laptop near you, under the direction of vetted satirist Nicole Holofcener.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
The satirist from Windham died following a long battle with prostate cancer, according to his ex-wife, Shelly Miles.
—Brian Niemietz, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
The conservative satirist announced in May that he was being treated for prostate cancer, which had metastasized to his bones.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
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Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
Alexandra Tanner’s Worry is soon headed to a laptop near you, under the direction of vetted satirist Nicole Holofcener.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
The satirist from Windham died following a long battle with prostate cancer, according to his ex-wife, Shelly Miles.
—Brian Niemietz, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
The conservative satirist announced in May that he was being treated for prostate cancer, which had metastasized to his bones.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
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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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Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
23 Sep. 2024
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Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.—
Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
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As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
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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
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The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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The screenplay is co-written by Annila and Rachelle Atalla, a Scottish-Egyptian novelist and screenwriter.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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Upstairs, impressionists, writers, socialites, and painters who moved in Proust’s orbit, from Sarah Bernhardt to Emile Zola and Claude Monet, lent their names to a room or suite.—
Lindsey Tramuta,
Robb Report,
2 Apr. 2026
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The awards show is set for March 31, with stand-up comedian, actor and impressionist Matt Friend as host.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
11 Mar. 2026
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But one thing that grew up in this production of playwright Luis Alfaro’s Chicano trilogy that the theatre began two years ago was Three Bone.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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It was later renamed in 1959 for playwright Eugene O'Neill, widely considered the father of modern American drama.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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And this is the director in him, the storyteller in him.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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The winners in this next phase will be the companies that can build around human storytellers who have earned genuine trust at scale.—
Lin Cherry,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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