List of satirists and satires
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List of satirists and satires
Below is a list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire - humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Also included is a list of modern satires.
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[edit] Early satirical authors
- Aesop (c. 620-560 BCE) - Fables
- Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BCE) The Frogs, The Birds, and The Clouds
- Gaius Lucilius (c. 180-103 BCE) - Books
- Horace (65-8 BCE)Sermones
- Ovid (43 BCE to 17 CE) - The Art of Love
- Petronius (c. 27-66 CE) - Satyricon
- Juvenal (1st to early 2nd centuries CE) - Satires
- Lucian (c. 120-180 CE)
- Apuleius (c. 123-180 CE) - The Golden Ass
- Various Authors (9th century CE and later) - The Thousand and One Nights
[edit] Medieval, Early Modern and 18th Century satirists
- Obeid e zakani (?-1370), Akhlaq al-Ashraf ("Ethics of the Aristocracy")
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 to 1375) - The Decameron
- Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400) The Canterbury Tales
- Erasmus (1466 to 1536) - The Praise of Folly
- François Rabelais (c. 1493 to 1553) -- "Gargantua", "Pantagruel"
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 to 1616) - Don Quixote
- Luis de Góngora (1561 to 1627)
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580 to 1645)
- Juan de Tassis y Peralta, 2nd Count of Villamediana (1582 to 1622)
- 'Martin Marprelate' (true identity unknown) - Marprelate Tracts published 1588-89
- Samuel Butler (1612-1680) - Hudibras
- Molière (1622 – 1673)
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
- Jonathan Swift (1667 to 1745) - Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
- John Gay (1685-1732) - The Beggar's Opera
- Alexander Pope (1688 to 1744)
- Voltaire (1694-1778) - Candide
- James Bramston(1694 - 1744)
- Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754)
- Laurence Sterne (1713 to 1768) - Tristram Shandy
- James Beresford (1764 - 1840) The Miseries of Human Life
[edit] Modern satirists (born 1800-1900)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) - "The Man That Was Used Up", "A Predicament"
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) – ‘’Hard Times’’
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -"Huckleberry Finn", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
- Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) - The Devil's Dictionary, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
- Samuel "Erewhon" Butler (1835–1902)
- Jaroslav Hasek (Czech)
- George Derby (US) (April 3, 1823–May 15, 1861) AKA John P. Squibob, John Phoenix
- Alfred Jarry (French)
- W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
- Thomas Nast (1840–1902)
- Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
- H.L. Mencken (US)
- Anatole France (1844–1924)
- Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900)
- Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1866–1931) (Azerbaijani)
- H.H. Munro aka Saki (1870–1916)
- Radoje Domanovic (1873-1908)
- Iraj Mirza (1874 - 1926)
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Will Rogers (1879–1935)
- James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1879–1959)
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935)
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) - The Master and Margarita
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) - Point Counter Point, Brave New World
- Josep Pla (1897-1981) - Nocturn de primavera, El carrer estret
[edit] Modern satirists (born 1900-1930)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
- George Orwell (1903-1950) - Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) (UK)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) - Breakfast of Champions, "Cat's Cradle"
- Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) - Stand-up comedian
- Joseph Heller (1923-1999) - Catch-22
- Günter Grass (1927-) - The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse
- Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) - Dr. Strangelove
- Tom Lehrer (1928-) (US)
- Ray Bradbury (US)
- William Burroughs (US)
- Dario Fo (Italy)
- Flannery O'Connor (US)
- C. Northcote Parkinson (UK)
- Anna Russell (UK)
- Gore Vidal (US)
- Mel Brooks (US)
[edit] Modern satirists (born 1930-1960)
- Roger Abbott (Canada)
- Tom Lehrer (1928-) - That Was the Year That Was, musician
- Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) (Canada)
- Tom Wolfe (1931-) - The Bonfire of the Vanities
- Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) Illuminatus!
- Barry Humphries (1934-) "My Gorgeous Life", "The Life and Death of Sandy Stone", stage shows
- Alan Bennett (1934-) (UK)
- Cathy Jones (1955-) (Canada)
- Mary Walsh (1952-) (Canada)
- Dudley Moore (1935-2002) (UK)
- Woody Allen (1935-) (US)
- George Carlin(1937-) (stand-up comedian)
- Peter Cook (1937-1995) - British Satire boom, Beyond the Fringe
- Eleanor Bron (1938-) (UK)
- David Frost (1939) (UK)
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993) - We're Only In It For The Money
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani (1941-2004)
- Garrison Keillor (1942-) (US)
- Lewis Black (1948) - Stand up Comic, "Daily Show"
- Jonathan Meades (1947-) (UK) - writer, broadcaster, satirist
- Terry Pratchett (1948-) - The Discworld book series
- Garry Trudeau (1948-) (US)
- George Saunders
- Christopher Guest (1948-) (US) - "This is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman"
- Gary Larson (1950-) (US) - cartoonist
- Steve Bell (1951-)
- Al Franken (1951-) (US)
- Don Ferguson (Canada)
- Christopher Buckley (1952-) - Thank You for Smoking, The White House Mess
- Douglas Adams (1952-2001) (UK)
- Carl Hiaasen (1953-) - Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip
- Matt Groening (1954-) (US) The Simpsons, Futurama
- George C. Wolfe (1954-) - "The Colored Museum"
- Howard Stern (1954-) (US)
- Jonathan Miller (1954-) (UK)
- Ziad Rahbani (1956-) (Lebanon)
- David Sedaris (1956-) (US)
- Scott Adams (1957-) (US)
- "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959-) (US)
- Hugh Laurie (1959-) (UK)
- Stephen Fry (1957-) (UK)
- Wayne Federman (1957-) (US)
- Jello Biafra (1958-) - Dead Kennedys
- Ebrahim Nabavi (1958-), winner of Prince Claus Award (2005)
- Robert Zubrin (US)
- Craig Brown (UK)
- Dave Barry (1947-) - Pulitzer Prize winning humour columnist
- Luba Goy (Canada)
[edit] Modern satirists (born 1960-present)
- Bill Hicks (1961-1994) - stand-up comedian
- Bob Odenkirk (1962-) - Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show
- Jon Stewart (1962-) - The Daily Show
- David Cross (1964-) - Mr. Show, Arrested Development
- Stephen Colbert (1964-) - The Colbert Report, The Daily Show
- Chris Morris (1965-) - Brass Eye, The Day Today
- Michael "Atters" Attree (UK)
- Charlie Brooker - Nathan Barley
- Stoney Burke (US)
- Dave Chappelle (US)
- Bret Easton Ellis (1964-)
- Rick Mercer (1969-) - The Rick Mercer Report
- Greg Thomey (1961) (Canada)
- Jessica Holmes (Canada)
- Scott Dikkers (US)
- Sabina Guzzanti (Italy)
- Mike Judge (US)
- Craig Lauzon (Canada)
- Victor Lewis-Smith - TV Offal
- Daniele Luttazzi (Italy)
- Seth MacFarlane - Family Guy
- Aaron McGruder (US)
- Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (US)
- Little Marvin (US)
- Chris Morris (satirist) - Brass Eye, Nathan Barley
- The Moustache Brothers (Mandalay, Myanmar)
- Ebrahim Nabavi (Iran)
- Page the village idiot (b. 1966)
- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
- Douglas Coupland - Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
- Alan Park (Canada)
- Trey Parker - South Park
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani (Iran)
- Mark A. Rayner (Canada)
- Amy Sedaris (US)
- Matt Stone - South Park
- Sarah Silverman (1970-) - The Sarah Silverman Program, The Aristocrats, The Larry Sanders Show
- Sacha Baron Cohen (1971-) - Borat, Da Ali G Show
- Jhonen Vasquez (1974-) Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Squee, etc.
- George Ouzounian (1978-) - Well known Internet author of The Best Page In The Universe
- Erik Larsen (1962 - present) "The Savage Dragon" comic book from Image Comics.
- Ian Hislop (1960-) - Private Eye
- Chris Lilley (Present) - Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, The Big Bite
- Chris Taylor (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Craig Reucassel (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Julian Morrow (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Charles Firth (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Chas Licciardello (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Andrew Hansen (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Dominic Knight (Present) - Member of the Chaser
- Mark Morford (Present) - Notes and Errata, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate
- George "Maddox" Ouzounian (1978-) - American author and Internet personality
[edit] Notable satires in contemporary popular culture
In modern culture, much satire is often the work of several individuals collectively, as in magazines and television. Hence the following list.
[edit] Print
- Le Canard enchaîné (weekly French satirical newspaper)
- The Second Supper (US Magazine)
- The Onion (US Magazine)
- Private Eye (UK magazine)
- Charlie Hebdo (weekly French satirical paper)
- The Tart (Fortnightly UK newspaper)
- The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
- Titanic (German Magazine)
- MAD Magazine (Juvenile satire magazine)
[edit] Television and radio
- The Simpsons (Matt Groening)
- Fiona Hudson Student Looking Hot
- Howard Stern (radio personalty "The Howard Stern Show")
- Mad Men (Matthew Weiner)
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (US Talk Show)
- The Colbert Report (US Talk Show)
- This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Canadian TV show)
- South Park (Trey Parker, Jeremy Scanlon & Matt Stone)
- The Chaser (Australian newspaper and TV shows)
- Facelift (New Zealand Political show)
- Spitting Image (UK TV show famous for its puppets)
- Yes Minister (also "Yes, Prime Minister" - UK TV show satirising government)
- Have I Got News For You - Long running UK TV panel show
- Nathan Barley - 2005 UK TV satire by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker.
- The Chaser's War On Everything - Australian satire with an emphasis on attacking 'everyone'.
- Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld)
- Royal Canadian Air Farce (1993 - 2007) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
- Air Farce Live (2007 - present) (Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
[edit] Music
- "Mercedes-Benz" a McClure-Joplin song sung by Janis Joplin
- Culturcide's album tacky souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America overdubbed new, satirical lyrics onto such pop hits as "We Are the World".
- Weird Al Yankovic is a satirical song-writer/singer/rapper
- Mark Russell American political satirist known for his many appearances on PBS
- John Austin's album If I Was A Latin King satirizes Mexican and Latin pop music and Christian dogma
- Peter Gabriel's song The Barry Williams Show satirizes talk shows which showcase domestic topics of a taboo or shocking nature (and the viewing public's fascination with such content).
[edit] Film
- Blazing Saddles (Warner Bros. 1974 Comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirising racism.)
- Casino Royale (A 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and entire spy genre).
- This Is Spinal Tap (satire of heavy metal culture and "rockumentaries")
- Clueless
- Thank You for Smoking (film)
- Team America: World Police (2004 film satirizing Hollywood action flicks as well as post-9/11 American foreign policy)
- Wag the Dog
- The Rules of Attraction
- Best in Show
- I Heart Huckabees
- Scary Movie
- Dr Strangelove (Satirical comedy relating war and sex)
- Planet of the Apes (1968) Gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees control a future version of earth in which humans are mute beasts; the ruling gorillas and orangutans reject evolutionary theory and the ability of the humans to think because they don't speak.
- The Great Dictator
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Network
- Otaku no Video (1993 anime satirizing the otaku subculture)
- Adaptation.
- Brazil
[edit] Internet
- BBspot
- Pat Condell
- Landover Baptist Church (US website satirizing Fundamentalist Christians)
- The Onion
- NewsBiscuit
- Maddox
- ScrappleFace
- Uncyclopedia (satirical parody of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
- The Second Supper
- Jeremy Nell (South African cartoonist)
- MAVAV (satire of video game misconceptions and stereotypes)
- Encyclopedia Dramatica
