satirist

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Recent Examples of satirist Authoritarians historically come for the comics first, and most recently under Putin, satirist Idrak Mirzalizade was jailed and deported for mocking Russian housing. Lizz Winstead, Time, 27 Sep. 2025 The biographer who revived the reputation of our first Secretary of the Treasury—and incidentally launched a trillion amateur rap battles—set his sights on a beloved American satirist this year. Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 After the political satirist used part of his Sunday show to blast Cain's recent decision to join the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the actor hit back, accusing the comedian of plagiarizing his jokes. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025 But the famed satirist and mathematician, who died on July 26 at 97, wrote one of the first popular songs about a Jewish holiday. Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for satirist
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Soyinka, born on 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, is a renowned playwright, poet, essayist and public intellectual.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Having started his career as a film critic and essayist on YouTube, Stuckmann makes the transition to director with a horror movie that expertly blends media and feels at times like a mockumentary ripped right from the video platform.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In truth, a novelist is uniquely qualified to write sports fiction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The true-crime movie stars stiller as novelist Norman Mailer, who befriended convict Jack Henry Abbott (Farrell).
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The funniest part about that is Lisa Ann Walter is actually a really exceptional impressionist.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The comedian and impressionist who has done his impressions to the faces of Michael Buble, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti and more will be at American Comedy Co. 8 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To reflect the current moment — when discrimination against not only the LGBTQ community but also the non-binary and transgender communities — is on the rise, playwright Lee rewrote parts of his 2022 play earlier this year in San Francisco.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • If a computer can knock off a script in a matter of minutes, what does the future look like for playwrights?
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The common ingredients are incredible storytellers who are excited about trying to make a series that feels authentic and realistic, and maybe feels familiar, but in a way that also feels elevated and sophisticated.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The loveliest is that both books and gardens continue to bear fruit years after the storyteller and the gardener are long gone.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Turning from his father’s trade of corset-making, Paine tried his hand at business, met and impressed Benjamin Franklin in London, sailed to America, and there found his true metier as a pamphleteer and radical.
    Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Even with all his diplomatic ties, Franklin was powerless to assist Platt because of the Treason Act’s suspension of habeas corpus. Advertisement Newspaper editors and pamphleteers circulated stories about the horrible conditions in the British prisons holding thousands of Americans.
    Time, Time, 9 July 2025

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