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• s  exposing human folly to ridicule
  a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine

• The language earns it an "explicit" label, but the content is mostly satiric good fun.
• According to a satiric new book called The Peter Principle (Morrow; $4.
• Then Saturday Night Live took over the comedy world, and the iconoclasts were replaced by the satiric ensemble, sketch players, guys who could do a Bill Clinton impression.

• satirical

News & Articles

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• Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64
  Mr. Wilson’s plays often had a satirical edge and included real people from history, like Darwin, Eichmann and Aleister Crowley.
  July 7, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• David ÄŒerný in Times Online
  23/6 and Funny or Die have been delivering wickedly funny political videos and humor pieces throughout the campaign, so we thought it would be fun to bring together the best of both sites, along with the sharpest satiric blog posts from... Arianna Huffington http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEJgOBQoCrZVNNnI0P5sLMBzdzvgQ MarketWatch http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/funny-die-huffington-post-236com/story.aspx%3Fguid%3D%257B916E64A4-9A20-478E-8EB5-2EB2527A9919%257D%26dist%3Dhppr&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFntJeDB-kNSGZhj6XjPKqwkiHowg Oct 1, 2008 86038 115044 satiric Mr Cerny added: Monty Python and Sacha Baron Cohen are probably the most exceptional examples of satiric politically-incorrect humour and maybe because the British have this sense of humour they are able to take the joke better than some other...