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A Practical Guide To Racism

A Practical Guide to Racism is a 2007 humorous satirical book written by Sam Means under the pseudonym C.H. Dalton.

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

It was modelled after Jonathan Swift's satirical essays, and is intended to "teach" a reader the various methods for "teasing and mortifying" one's acquaintances.

Arthur Chesterfield-Evans

Dr Chesterfield-Evans was president of the Non-Smokers Movement from 1984 to 1997 and a member of Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions (BUGA UP), which vandalised tobacco-advertising billboards with satirical graffiti.

As Bees In Honey Drown

As Bees In Honey Drown is a satirical comedy by Douglas Carter Beane, an American playwright and screenwriter.

Canzonissima

The 1962 edition, hosted by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, generated large political controversities due to use of censorship to cut some satirical sketches of Fo; the couple Fo-Rame was eventually fired, and the scandal lead to a long interruption of five years.

Carlo Cecere

Cecere set to music at least two librettos by Pietro Trinchera, including La tavernola abentorosa. Trinchera, not Cecere, was punished because La tavernola abentorosa's satirical portrayal of monastic life was considered a buffoonish mockery.

Dana International

During one of her performances, she was discovered by Offer Nissim, a well-known Israeli DJ, who produced her debut single "Saida Sultana" ("My Name is Not Saida"), a satirical version of Whitney Houston's song "My Name Is Not Susan".

E. J. Thribb

J. Thribb (17½) has been the fictitious poet-in-residence at the satirical magazine Private Eye since 1972; the poems were in reality written by Barry Fantoni.

El Bernameg

Its satirical style, willing to poke fun at powerful personages across the political spectrum, has led the press to compared it with The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show.

Erewhon Revisited

Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son (1901) is a satirical novel by Samuel Butler, forming a belated sequel to his Erewhon (1872).

Fizzers

Fizzers pieces are not executed in the traditional, satirical mode of British caricature epitomised by Gerald Scarfe, but are inspired by the works of European artists such as Sebastian Krüger and Patrice Ricord.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

On September 21, 2012, Pastafarian Giorgos Loizos was arrested in Greece on charges of malicious blasphemy and offense of religion for the creation of a satirical Facebook page called "Elder Pastitsios", based on a well-known deceased Greek Orthodox monk, Elder Paisios, where his name and face were substituted with pastitsio – a local pasta and béchamel sauce dish.

Frank-Markus Barwasser

Currently, he is co-host, with colleague Urban Priol, of the satirical ZDF show Neues aus der Anstalt and host of a talk show for the same channel, "Pelzig hält sich".

Gaming Target

In 2006, the website published a satirical article showcasing how to use the "Kreate a Fighter" option in the video game Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.

Georges Wolinski

During the student revolts of May 1968, Wolinski co-founded the satirical magazine L'Enragé with Siné.

Gerard Stembridge

He reached significant prominence in Ireland when he co-created the satirical comedy radio programme Scrap Saturday with Dermot Morgan.

Ill-Matched Marriage

The subject of the "grotesque marriage" is also present in the satirical literature, as in the poem The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant (1494), which in its 52nd chapter, tackles about the "marriage-for-money" theme.

Jean Auscher

He contributed to the satirical journal Le Rire (“Laughter”); he also illustrated works by Irène Némirovsky, who was rediscovered when Suite Francaise was republished in 2004.

John Worgan

Martin Madan, in a satirical song upon Joah Bates, issued anonymously, and set to music by Samuel Wesley, entitled ‘The Organ laid open, &c.,’ placed him as a player upon an equality with Handel: "Let Handel or Worgan go thresh at the organ".

Lucy Kellaway

Her second book was a satirical novel in emails: Martin Lukes: Who Moved My BlackBerry (July 2005).

Magic ring

William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel The Rose and the Ring features a ring that has the power to make whoever owns it beautiful; its passage from person to person in the novel is an important element of the story.

Mancow's Morning Madhouse

This act is accompanies by a satirical impression of a Chinese man, complete with fake karate sounds in the background.

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

In these circumstances he compared the heroic traditions of Portugal in Asia, which had induced him to leave home, with the reality, and wrote his satirical sonnets on The Decadence of the Portuguese Empire in Asia, and those addressed to Afonso de Albuquerque and D. João de Castro.

Melbourne Punch

A cartoon titled "BAIL-UP!" in 1900 was possibly the first published use of the Kelly Gang in a satirical context.

Olaf Krohn

He is particularly known for his illustrations in the satirical magazine Vikingen.

Örn Árnason

He is noted for his satirical portrayals of public figures, including former Icelandic Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson.

Paul Löbe

At the time of Löbe's state funeral at the Rathaus Schöneberg on 9 August 1967, Andreas Baader (the later Red Army Faction militant), the author Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others in a satirical rally carried a coffin bearing the words “SENAT” to the front of the city hall.

Pietro Verri

In his early life he translated Destouches' works (1754) and wrote satirical almanacs (Borlanda impasticciata, Gran Zoroastro and Mal di Milza) which scandalized the Milanese society.

Pschyrembel Klinisches Wörterbuch

However, the stone louse is only a fictitious animal created by the German satirical comedian Loriot to parody nature documentaries.

Ragnvald Blix

He delivered illustrations to the Munich magazine Simplicissimus from 1908 to 1918, and edited the satirical magazine Exlex from 1919 to 1920.

Ric Browde

He decided to put producing off for a while to pursue other career ventures when he wrote the satirical novel While I'm Dead Feed the Dog in 2000 and later sold the rights in 2006 for it to become a film.

Robert Dodsley

This was followed by a satirical farce called The Toyshop (Covent Garden, 1735), in which the toymaker indulges in moral observations on his wares, a hint which was probably taken from Thomas Randolph's Conceited Pedlar.

Robert Kaplow

For National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Mr. Kaplow created "Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters," a series of musical and satirical pop-culture parodies.

Roger Ruskin Spear

Spear is the son of satirical artist and lecturer Ruskin Spear.

Sandor Katz

He was the subject of the 2009 song by the punk rock band Propagandhi, "Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)," a satirical vegan response to Katz's 2006 chapter on "Vegetarian Ethics and Humane Meat" in The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved.

Sergey Zvantsev

His miniatures were included in the satirical TV series Fitil.

Serve the People

Writer Yan Lianke wrote a satirical novel set during the Cultural Revolution titled Serve the People about an affair between the wife of a military officer and a peasant soldier.

Sherman Oaks Galleria

The teenage mall culture which formed around it and nearby malls formed the basis of the 1982 satirical song "Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa and daughter Moon Zappa.

Sordello

His didactic poem, L’ensenhamen d’onor, and his love songs and satirical pieces have little in common with Dante's presentation, but the invective against negligent princes which Dante puts into his mouth in the 7th canto of the Purgatorio is more adequately parallelled in his sirventes-planh (1237) on the death of his patron Blacatz, where he invites the princes of Christendom to feed on the heart of the hero.

Sporus

In 1735, Alexander Pope wrote a satirical poem that mocked the courtier Lord Hervey, who had been accused of homosexuality a few years earlier.

St. Sukie de la Croix

They wrote a satirical column together for the Emerald City News which was published weekly in London’s Capital Gay from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Telephone company

In the satirical 1967 film The President's Analyst, "TPC, The Phone Company," is depicted as plotting to enslave humanity by replacing landlines with implanted mobile phones.

The History of a Town

The History of a Town is a fictional chronicle by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin first published in 1870 and regarded as the major satirical Russian novel of the 19th century.

The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha! is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson and Anna C. Long published in August 2008.

The New Adventures of Hitler

The New Adventures of Hitler was a satirical and surreal (one scene has Hitler opening a cupboard to find Morrissey singing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now") strip based on the claims of Hitler's sister-in-law Bridget Dowling that Hitler had lived with her, her husband Alois Hitler, Jr., and her son William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913.

The New Paul and Virginia

The New Paul and Virginia, or Positivism on an Island is a satirical dystopian novel written by William Hurrell Mallock, and first published in 1878.

The Week That Wasn't

The Week That Wasn't is an Indian satirical late night television programme hosted by Cyrus Broacha and shown on the CNN-IBN channel.

Thomas Scoville

Two major works render an insider's perspective on life in technology startups: The satirical Silicon Valley Tarot published in 1998 and Silicon Follies, an online serial novel running on Salon.com in 1999, eventually finding its way to hardcover publication by Pocket Books and a television pilot by Ron Howard's Imagine Television.

Vauro Senesi

He was Pino Zac's apprentice, and, together with Giancarlo Fusco, Cinzia Leone and others, in September 1978 they founded Il Male, a satirical weekly newspaper.

Work Is a Four-Letter Word

Work Is a Four-Letter Word (also known as Work Is a 4-Letter Word) is a 1968 British satirical comedy film directed by Peter Hall, adapted from Henry Livings' play "Eh?" and starring David Warner and Cilla Black.


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