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• n  a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm

• Once and only once in his career the bitter, urbane, howlingly funny satirist Evelyn Waugh screwed up all his nerve and his talent and produced a genuine literary masterpiece.
• Naked Lunch: Burroughs fancies himself a satirist and occasionally resembles one when the diary's heroin fog clears a little.
• Beppe Grillo, a popular Italian comedian, actor, and political satirist, writes one of the few non-English language blogs that's become wildly popular worldwide.

• ironist
• ridiculer

News & Articles

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• Video: Stephen Colbert Returns to 'Colbert Report', Pays Tribute to Late Mother
  The political satirist gets emotional as he shares story about Lorna Tuck Colbert's life on the first day he returns to his Comedy Central show after a week hiatus.
  June 21, 2013 - AceShowbiz
• Watch Stephen Colbert's tribute to his mother on first day back after her death
  Political satirist Stephen Colbert, who grew up in Charleston and still has a home here, returned to his post on the anchor desk at Comedy Central's ''The Colbert Report'' Wednesday, one week to the day after his mother, Lorna, died at the age of 92.
  June 20, 2013 - The Post and Courier
• Stephen Colbert pays tribute to his mother on first day back after her death
  Political satirist Stephen Colbert, who grew up in Charleston and still has a home here, returned to his post on the anchor desk at Comedy Central's ''The Colbert Report'' Wednesday, one week to the day after his mother, Lorna, died at the age of 92.
  June 20, 2013 - The Post and Courier

Quotes

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• Al Franken in Forbes
  I was a satirist,Franken explained to Democrats at a picnic in Chaska, about 30 miles southwest of Minneapolis. "Let me tell you what a satirist does: A satirist points out hypocrisy, inconsistencies and absurdities, and reveals them. Let...
• Norman Ornstein in USA Today
  He is not a comedian anymore,Ornstein said. "He is always going to be a satirist. He is always going to have comedic talents. He is a senator now."
• Dean Acheson in Times Online
  Nixon loathed him; but Dean Acheson called him "the greatest satirist in English since Pope and Swift".