We can satirize ourselves better than anyone could ever do.
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Do you find it difficult to satirize our strange present?
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These images do more than just satirize traditional marriage tropes.
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Reyes says he likes to satirize people's worst suspicions about humanity.
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It was a progressive-leaning genre that seemed to satirize consumer culture.
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"Tug" (2018) also uses a little male figurine to satirize gender dynamics.
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How do you satirize the Internet when it's self-satirizing, you know?
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Its specialty is finding satire even in topics seemingly impossible to satirize.
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Because he has no shame he's a uniquely difficult character to satirize.
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Those are the companies and industry figures we need to satirize the most.
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ABC's sitcom "black-ish" exists, partly, to satirize these sorts of conversational bloopers.
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Years later, HBO's "Veep" would satirize that posture through its own fictional politician.
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"The edict was never to injure, it was to satirize, to lampoon," Paulsen explains.
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He's a very hard person to satirize, because he's so outrageous to begin with.
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Today, having defected to South Korea, he uses his talents to satirize his repressive homeland.
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It's just a shame that Roth is no longer around to satirize a second Podhoretz.
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Bakshi used that ugliness to satirize and draw attention to everything from racism to Nazism.
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At what point did it no longer seem possible to satirize the world we live in?
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His ability to satirize people while simultaneously hugging them with gentle sincerity would give me confidence.
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And some, like Wet Hot American Summer, took a meta approach to satirize the genre entirely.
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Are you all starting to understand what I mean, when I say Trump is impossible to satirize?
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The writers had a plum opportunity to satirize office stereotypes or make a salient point about them.
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They're turning to Twitter to satirize the party's front-runner through parody that veers into personal attacks.
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" A representative of The New Yorker stated, "The intention of the poem was to satirize 'foodie' culture.
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Some claimed these comedians contributed to the very "fake news" and "truthiness" they'd set out to satirize.
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First reported by The Washington Post, the seal had been doctored to satirize contentious aspects of Trump's presidency.
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But he can't help but satirize the vanities of his career-minded characters, with their little wheelie suitcases.
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The half-hour series, which begins Sunday, is clearly meant to satirize something, but the target is elusive.
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As far back as ancient Sumer and Egypt, animals have been used to embody, satirize, and appraise human behavior.
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But the show alternates its semi-sincere musical-theater tributes with slick, contemporary music videos that satirize their genre.
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Fifer is, of course, played by Gwyenth Paltrow herself, here to satirize her Goop empire, as only she can.
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He would have used the same format to satirize Trump's infatuation with another politician, regardless of sexuality or gender.
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The Supreme Court's defamation precedents are meant to shield newspapers that scrutinize power and magazines that satirize prominent figures.
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For his works of that time, Mr. Penck coined the term Standart to satirize the standardization of modern life.
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Some subversions, paradoxically, can even seem to reinvigorate the stale conventions that they'd set out to subvert or satirize.
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Ironically, Freedom from Facebook itself had previously been criticized for using anti-Semitic imagery to satirize the social network.
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He says he will continue to satirize the president until "he is no longer a danger" to the country.
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"I support and defend the right to criticise and satirize events like this," Oz Katerji, a journalist, told the BBC.
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They'll hear reporters satirize them in song, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro and his brother, Rep.
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Befitting the community of code-savvy folks who make extensions, many of these browser add-ons satirize tired technology tropes.
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But Stern's aim was to satirize misogyny, not normalize it, and she must have been conscious of subverting her assignment.
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In a sense we are all Alabamians now, wincing when sophisticates abroad satirize our willingness to be beguiled by abnormality.
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Founders Nicole Cliffe and Daniel Mallory Ortberg created a space that took the female experience seriously enough to then satirize it.
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Bunch overlays group voice or video chat on the screen so you can strategize or satirize with up to eight pals.
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Well, it's really hard to satirize something that's already insane, but if it's being given legitimacy, then we have no choice.
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If someone told you that you could tackle any modern movie and do the same, what would you want to satirize?
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If anything, there has never been a better time to satirize the hubris and folly that pervades the world of tech.
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Perhaps they're meant to satirize corporations; perhaps they're meant to expose our latent acceptance of whatever marketing teams throw at us.
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There might be no better artist than Rist to satirize the country's very public turn to male chauvinism and political paternalism.
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The problem with this defense is that constantly using super-racist images to satirize racism seems like a strategy with diminishing returns.
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Others, like Reddit user PhD_in_everything, satirize internet archetypes like the mansplaining know-it-all by overtly condescending to whomever they're speaking with.
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Sokal submitted his nonsensical paper to satirize postmodern philosophy — and in particular, its misappropriation of the language of his own discipline, physics.
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According to creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone's interview with The Atlantic, Trump's real presidency is so crazy, it's hard to satirize.
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All the writers have said they almost can't satirize what's going on fast enough, which is scary – and also great for us.
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If anything, it seems as if Black wants The Predator to satirize the ridiculous excess of '80s action movies by subverting them.
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In the early episodes, Soloway mostly used the show's premise to capture and satirize the preoccupations of anxious, upper-middle-class Los Angelenos.
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Galli has made similar sculptures that satirize political figures in the past, including North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The renewal will extend the show's run to the end of 2016, giving Bee plenty of time to satirize the upcoming presidential election.
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In fact, artists like Xu Zhen have made works that deliberately satirize the awkward essentializing of Chinese art into stereotypical Eastern cultural values.
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But HBO's "Veep" — one of the shows you'd think would be most inclined to satirize a vulgar, egotistical U.S. president — isn't changing course.
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The artistic prank of the century, designed to satirize the excesses of the auction world, has now become a highly valued museum piece.
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Bi erasure is a common problem, and Insatiable doesn't satirize it well at all—it heavily emphasizes that bisexuality is a state of confusion.
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"The impulse to satirize makeup hacks and tutorials definitely started at Glamour, as a response to how seriously everyone takes makeup," Solomon tells Creators.
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The second problem, however, is that most people paid to satirize him tend to find the material consequences of his presidency anything but funny.
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" The work was intended to satirize wealth in America, and Cattelan said he hoped "the robbery is a kind of Robin Hood-inspired action.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Get Out is hardly the first film to satirize or critique simplistic treatments of race and racism in cinema.
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Many of his statements, in fact, sound a lot like the kind of tech-industry blather and trend-following that Miller usually loves to satirize.
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How do you satirize -- and in the process land political blows -- on a campaign that has lifted American politics to new heights of self-parody?
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But Chaz Clark, an art student at Georgia College, aims to satirize billboard culture and challenge the social values of his conservative, predominantly white town.
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The series — if it actually happens, that is — would satirize reality shows (something the comedian has definitely done on Inside Amy Schumer in the past).
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In the style of Western shows that satirize the news, the Xinhua video features animations, sound effects and an energetic host, identified as Dier Wang.
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Waksberg said that's because harassment, assault, and inequity unavoidably come up in a writers' room full of industry people talking about how to satirize the industry.
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The comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele satirize gang culture with help from a kitten dressed as a gangster in the film "Keanu," opening today.
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But maybe the aim of "A New Leaf" was to satirize the anti-drug movement as a whole—and the way this movement leaked into television.
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I Only Skate When I Have Emotional Trauma At first, it seems like Koenig is out to satirize high society, and shows like Skins or Gossip Girl.
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In short, it is a meme and a popular hashtag used to either satirize, poke fun or criticize what internet denizens believe to be stereotypically "white" behavior.
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Similarly, Albini's lyrics would become as abstract as the music itself, though he'd still find ways to satirize, particularly the macho-driven fascinations of men writ large.
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It doesn't expressly mock or satirize "Hereditary," but it captures something about the style and tone of that movie, and uses it to fresh and funny effect.
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He writes on two levels — seemingly tactful and subtle — but ultimately he presents a devastating portrait of a whole class, one easier to satirize than to reform.
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Another Carnival group dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan — in order, they said, to satirize a far-right city councilor in a nearby town.
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Or whether you've gotten giddy over the prospect of how "Saturday Night Live" will satirize his and his staff's highly abnormal comportment during news conferences and interviews.
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But although it's couched in absurdity, the idea of a queer Babadook is also perhaps a way to satirize bigger, real-life ongoing conversations and cultural preoccupations.
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"Four Lions is a satire that exaggerates current events to comical effect but also to satirize what we see in real-life in the UK," Choudry said.
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If these movies feel like indirect answers to the problem of how to satirize Trump, it's because they're reminders that there's nothing new about the impulses toward autocracy.
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It's a good joke and works at what the movie does best: satirize the Pixar style, one that is so familiar that it has almost become a cliché.
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The goal was not to win Bowyer-Chapman's heart but rather to see who could perform — satirize, really — stereotypes of femininity with enough humor to impress the judges.
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It has less to do with the iffy, easy-to-satirize concept of "wokeness" than with the urgent need to see what is right in front of you.
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And last week, a political cartoonist whose works satirize leaders of China and Hong Kong cancelled his solo exhibition in the city after receiving threats from Chinese authorities.
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Sumaria, an independent channel, was forced to take the programme off the air last month even though its sketches often satirize Islamic State, mocking the militants' cruelty and violence.
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Occasionally personalized activism swings far toward the "personal" and it produces calls for "trigger warnings" or a finely tuned sensitivity to language that some commentators satirize as political correctness.
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"The impulse to satirize makeup hacks and tutorials definitely started at Glamour, as a response to how seriously everyone takes makeup," she said to Creators Project back in March.
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Called "Last F—able Day," the segment features Louis-Dreyfus alongside Tina Fey and Patricia Arquette, as the trio satirize the way Hollywood treats actresses as they get older.
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In the first story, a lone writer looking to carve out a niche in the internet decides to satirize the untidy, anything-goes state of self-published erotica. Surprise!
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For instance, one such claim of "Nazi imagery"—where clips of a Hitler speech were played while Felix donned military garb—were meant to satirize YouTube's controversial new moderation protocols.
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In the '80s, Mr. Koons participated in a trend called commodity critique, which involved objects resembling high-end commercial products to satirize the market's transformation of artworks into desirable commodities.
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While other shows satirize Silicon Valley tropes like the stark class divide in the city and the idyllic office, this series follows the dark, unnerving underbelly of the tech world.
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But rather than poking fun at Peter or his specific suitors, SNL got right to the heart of what isn't working this season: there just isn't much there to satirize.
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Mike Judge's Silicon Valley faces a serious challenge in that it has to keep outdoing itself to properly satirize the real Silicon Valley, where crazy pants crap happens all the time.
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He was awarded $125,000 in damages after an unsuccessful attempt to bring charges against him during a case in which the defense argued a First Amendment right to satirize government officials.
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And for as vapid as Entourage was, it did manage to satirize nearly every aspect of Hollywood while still serving as a vicarious fantasy of life as a successful, famous, straight dude.
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The parts of the book that satirize Singaporean politics often call for a bit of explanation, which Liew provides by way of endnotes and, occasionally, tiny figures chatting in the pages' margins.
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Perhaps it is with these changes in mind, then, that Corporate—a new show on Comedy Central that seeks to satirize, as its name suggests, corporate culture—strikes such a sour note.
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Shows are trying, in vain, to stay ahead of the non-stop news cycle Many shows that dramatize or satirize politics exist in a parallel world, where someone else is the president.
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Structurally, it can't use them to satirize Silicon Valley excess, because it already has the preposterous Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), head of the fictional tech giant Hooli, to do that for it.
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Both forms were designed to appeal to the masses and to satirize those in power — albeit more subtly than this play did, using broad archetypes instead of actually naming and shaming current rulers.
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"The Horrible & Terrible Deeds & Words of the Very Renowned Trumpagruel" (2017) was inspired by François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, which used crude stories of the misadventures of two giants to shock and satirize.
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Brought here by West Indian immigrants, J'ouvert's origins lie in the emancipation of enslaved Africans in colonized Trinidad in the 19th century, who used street masquerades to mock and satirize their former masters.
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And while I have done things on skis to satirize the sport—skiing in a gorilla suit, skiing naked—at its core, skiing is deadly serious, and the goal, though unobtainable, is perfection.
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Last week, for example, the political cartoonist Badiucao, whose works satirize leaders of mainland China and Hong Kong, called off a solo exhibition in Hong Kong after receiving threats from the Chinese authorities.
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" According to him, "the world Satan has no inherent value... Our very presence as civic-minded socially responsible Satanists serves to satirize the ludicrous superstitious fears that the word Satan tends to evoke.
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This year, another Carnival group dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan in order, they said, to satirize Guy D'haeseleer, a far-right city councilor in the nearby town of Ninove.
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There's always been, "Hey, this is amazing and this seems horrible," and yet there was an ability to look at it and satirize some of it, or understand the absurdity of some of it.
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"I guess I'll just stick to baseball and hot dogs, and that's it," Perry half joked during her Prism album cycle, responding to criticisms of cultural appropriation with an attempt to satirize white culture.
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What's striking is that, in order to satirize the actual sexism of the industry, Kaling and Ganatra have had to imagine the TV world as just slightly less sexist than it may actually be.
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In your final Carson appearance, Steve, you played the magician the Great Flydini, and it struck me both you and Marty have an affinity for old-school showbiz but also love to satirize it.
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A show like Veep can satirize this Beltway tendency, while a show like Homeland has grown more despondent over it as it's aged (though perhaps not enough, if its most recent season is any indication).
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Maybe in a few years we'll get The Lego Superman Movie, and The Lego Justice League Movie is about to have a ton of new material to satirize, as the DCU gets off the ground.
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There are other films that satirize the trope—like The Cabin in the Woods—which plays with the idea that if a girl has sex in a horror film, she'll be the first to die.
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The cornball tagline of the project, "He reached the summit, and found rock bottom," is spot on; Sarah explained to THUMP that he created DAS to satirize the wealth, sex, and bravado-soaked club scene.
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The authors' intention is clearly to satirize the underinformed internationalism of postwar America: Adams's faith in capital and capitalism leads her to attempt to solve cash-strapped Lichtenburg's problems by poulticing them with dollar bills.
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Last week, the political cartoonist Badiucao, whose works satirize leaders of mainland China and Hong Kong, called off a solo exhibition in Hong Kong one day before its opening after receiving threats from the Chinese authorities.
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I talked to Michaels about whether reality in politics is now too much like satire to satirize, and whether, with Palin back in a transcendently nutty mix, 2016 is on track to Trump the mind-boggling ''S.
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I would describe Clarence as having a little something for everyone—we put in a ton of film/pop-culture references for people who like that stuff, and we satirize a lot of ideas and social concepts.
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And for a show that likes to satirize everything, its inability to talk about aging, about shifting political opinions, about how different America has become, ends up miring it in a past it could so easily escape.
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They've created their own pink version of the Make America Great Again hat, and use a variation of Trump's MAGA acronym — MIGA, which stands for "Make Israel Great Again" and is meant to satirize Trump's support for Israel.
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There is no shortage of comedians on late-night TV, the internet, and podcasts using Trump like a punching bag, each trying to make jokes out of a daily news cycle that is often too surreal to satirize.
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"RIGHT TO SATIRIzE" IS demands what it calls proper Islamic behaviour for citizens of its self-proclaimed caliphate but allows sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, and widespread rape of women and girls, according to witnesses from the region.
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Colonel Blimp was a familiar figure, established in a long-running newspaper cartoon of the nineteen-thirties by the left-leaning artist David Low, who intended to satirize the outmoded jingoism that encrusted the higher ranks of British society.
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He wants to satirize the president, but also to investigate the way that the president resists satire, and he has cannily constructed a fictional machine that both attacks the problem and pre-emptively defends itself against shortfalls or insufficiencies.
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Gunn was attempting shock humor in a juvenile South Park style; Jeong was attempting to satirize the bigoted, hyperbolically hateful language that, as a female tech journalist of Asian descent, she regularly experienced at the hands of hateful trolls.
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His paintings suggest a push-and-pull within himself: On one hand, he explores biblical themes with sincerity — for example, in the Adam and Eve works; on the other hand, he is willing to satirize, even demonize, the notion of dogma.
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At the same time, Powell describes herself as both a technophobe and a technophile: With "The Big Disruption," she hopes to satirize tech from the perspective of an informed insider who still loves the industry, despite its flaws and blind spots.
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It's corny or literal ("she took an Instagram selfie"); the hashtags already dated or unintentionally ironic (#sorrynotsorry) yet not plentiful enough to satirize or accurately reflect the hashtag cloud that trails after every influencer's posts like exhaust from a tailpipe.
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Rather than satirize rich men in suits, the show put the bull's-eyes on their trophy wives, painting them as vain parasites, symbols of greed—consumerist gargoyles who might absorb the fury that was more logically directed at Wall Street itself.
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Hosted by comedian Sonia Denis — who you'll recognize from her Emmy-nominated web series, Brown Girls — Riot's After After Party will celebrate and satirize the trending stories of the past week (with some help from a powerhouse roster of celeb influencers, of course).
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The gymnastic lengths Delaney has to go to in order to satirize real current events successfully highlights how far into the outfield our current events have already traveled, and that's the main point of a work like Oregon Patriots Occupied My Butt.
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Rather than focus on an epic quest filled with the violence and antagonistic conventions of more popular gaming franchises,they were going to find a way to subtly satirize those tropes with a game that always kept them just out of arm's reach.
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Rather than focus on an epic quest filled with the violence and antagonistic conventions of more popular gaming franchises, they were going to find a way to subtly satirize those tropes with a game that always kept them just out of arm's reach.
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And the background is under the Peter Kaplan era, the Observer was this tiny, very small circulation, influential among Manhattan media chattering classes that would satirize people like Donald Trump and Barry Diller and people who were trying to strive their way up.
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The scene in which Phil and Josie scare off a rich twit (Aaron Costa Ganis) who wants to buy their property is delightful, with father and daughter acting grotesque and menacing in ways that play into and satirize the toff's class prejudices.
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Silicon Valley is a show about how idiotic masculinity is idiotic masculinity in any context, and through that lens, it's able to satirize everything from Silicon Valley culture to well-meaning liberal dudes who can't stop being jerks in spite of themselves.
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The Favourite and The Death of Stalin deserve your attention, according to our film critic Alison Willmore: "If these movies feel like indirect answers to the problem of how to satirize Trump, it's because they're reminders that there's nothing new about the impulses toward autocracy."
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Owen Glieberman, Variety: "Baywatch," as a series, now looks jaw-droppingly goofy and harmless (actually, it did then too), and the movie would have been smart to satirize the show's innocuous underworld drama and cheeseball male gaze, playing up the dated absurdity of it all.
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Saturday Night Live could satirize the way that Trump threw his top advisors out of the room, including his attorney general, so he could be alone with Comey, without witnesses, to work his persuasive charm on the director to get Flynn off the legal hook.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One hundred years ago, the New York Dadaists self-published two editions of a small art journal called The Blind Man — a title chosen to satirize the general public's impaired vision when it came to seeing radical modernist art.
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That hack was sophisticated, intentional, and enormously damaging, causing $35 million in digital damage, smearing showbiz muckety mucks, and briefly holding a movie release hostage and leading to a lingering debate that threatens to soften Hollywood's ability to satirize—a tangible blow to free speech.
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"When I decided to resign, the first group I called were my donors, to give them the good news that I no longer would be begging them for money," said Mr. Israel, a published writer who plans to satirize the degrading process in his next novel.
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It's fitting, I suppose, that the reason Bennett has no time to satirize the super-powerful man eager to roll back gay rights in the United States is because he has to continue hitting the one-note "Trump has a crush on Putin" joke week after week.
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From the outside looking in, Jeremy Scott's latest Moschino collection might have seemed like something straight out of a movie; you know, films like Zoolander and The Devil Wears Prada that tend to satirize the fashion industry, instead of documentaries that explain what it is we do.
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In a final twist, the Patriarch's apartment looks out onto the Church of Christ the Savior, the city's main Orthodox cathedral, which, that same year, became the site of Pussy Riot's punk-art protest—a performance meant to satirize the Church's intimacy with politics under Kirill.
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This number set the tone for the show, which seemed to want to simultaneously proclaim the Emmys' expanded diversity -- this year featured the most diverse group of Emmy nominees ever -- and satirize the notion that true diversity had been achieved and that its historical racial exclusion had been solved.
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"I think it's a really hard question, but I would really urge and will urge the Congress to proceed very, very carefully, because as scary as deepfake technology is, the prospect of damaging our rights to free expression, the right to satirize politicians is also pretty scary," Himes told reporters.
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Laden with irony, Devo sported yellow Tyvek suits and 3D glasses; their delivery was deadpan and frenetic; and their avant-garde sound, fusing punk urgency with electronic experimentation, was accompanied by surrealist films, artwork, and manifestos that co-opted the logic of advertising to satirize and subvert American consumer culture.
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While there are plenty of things to critique and satirize Reagan over—from an administration utterly plagued with corruption and scandals to his voodoo economics that ballooned the debt and caused damage for generations—a horrifying disease that affects millions around the country probably isn't the best subject for a goofy comedy.
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Pierre et Gilles's painted photographs of subjects like Jeff Stryker and Marie France in glittery horns emphasizes how the images of the devil in the collective imagination have morphed from being informed by an earnest belief in his existence to reflecting a hyper-awareness of his symbolic meanings and a desire to satirize clichés.
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An Emmy for Megan is only 28 minutes long total, only slightly more time than it takes to wash a dog, but it manages to satirize TV and the Emmys themselves while featuring cameos from Alan Yang, Ted Danson, Seth Rogan, and Jimmy Kimmel, who all tell viewers we should give Megan Amram an Emmy already.
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Before the announcement of his reinstatement, Olson was defended by many on both the left and the right, with Vox's Dylan Matthews writing, "You do not need a PhD in linguistics to correctly identify this as obvious sarcasm" and noting that Olson himself had written a post clarifying the "garbage" his post was meant to satirize.
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But as Univision seeks to expand ahead of its rumored IPO, it believes the digital media publication's brand of satirical humor may be what it needs to reach the coveted millennial market — both online and on TV. "(The Onion) has the kind of brand equity that has been able to adapt to the changes in the media that it seeks to satirize," said Daniel Eilemberg, chief digital officer and senior vice president at Fusion, a digital and TV entity that is a joint venture between ABC and Univision.
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Jessica Kiang, The Playlist And here is what is even more frightening than Phoenix' hacking cackle, or the moments of gruesome bloodiness, or the portrait of a society teetering on the brink of breakdown: "Joker," based on recognisable IP and now given the seal of critical and possible awards-consideration approval too, is so aesthetically impressive, effective and persuasive of its own reality that you see clearly how easily it could be (mis)interpreted and co-opted by the very 4Chan/Incel/"mentally ill loner" element it purports to darkly satirize.
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But on Being Mary Jane, for instance, when Mary Jane Paul, played by Gabrielle Union, wanted to interview the brash star of the fictional reality series Family Brawlers, showrunner Erica Shelton could think of no one better than former Love and Hip-Hop star and rising rapper Cardi B. "We wanted to satirize the way morning shows have started to traffic in promoting reality shows, and I knew we needed someone who could depict one of these bold, unapologetic women," says Shelton, who was also one of the writers that worked on The Good Wife's Darkness At Noon.
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