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as in parodist
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as in essayist
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Recent Examples of satirist
This is where satirists like Stewart can help fill in the gaps: By juxtaposing populist authoritarians’ glittering generalities with the ugly reality of life under authoritarianism.
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Dannagal G. Young, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
Now an American, Youssef reflects on his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist during the Arab Spring — a career shift that ultimately led to him flee Egypt.
—Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2024
When satirists cover an issue, viewers become more likely to see that issue as important.
—Dannagal G. Young, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
How does the satirist work around the imposition, constructing her nasty, sarcastic world of minstrelsy and sharp tongues?
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
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Dannagal G. Young, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
Now an American, Youssef reflects on his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist during the Arab Spring — a career shift that ultimately led to him flee Egypt.
—Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2024
When satirists cover an issue, viewers become more likely to see that issue as important.
—Dannagal G. Young, The Conversation, 22 Mar. 2024
How does the satirist work around the imposition, constructing her nasty, sarcastic world of minstrelsy and sharp tongues?
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirist
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Tickets for the pop parodist are priced from $159 to $39 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Yankovic, 64, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa.Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2024
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — which the accordion-playing master parodist co-wrote and produced — beat out Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas, Fire Island, Hocus Pocus 2 and Prey to land Yankovic his first Emmy, adding to a career that’s already witnessed five Grammy Awards wins.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
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Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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What is the likelihood Jacob McNeal will win the Nobel Prize this year … GPT: As of my last knowledge update, Jacob McNeal, an American novelist and playwright, had not yet been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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By that point, Patrick White, arguably Australia’s greatest novelist, had spent much of his life in England.Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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For the time being, Saturday Night Live viewers will have to settle for the show’s political impressionists.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
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But in the biggest surprise of the cold open, SNL master impressionist Dana Carvey returned to the show as President Joe Biden.Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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David Schweizer, a theater director who championed emerging playwrights and worked at Baltimore Center Stage, died of a heart attack Dec. 5 in New York City.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 15 Dec. 2024
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Project, which Dawson is producing, is adapted from award-winning playwright Edwin Sanchez’s show of the same name.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
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Motels have long been symbols of rock-and-roll rebellion, places for wanderers and storytellers seeking escape from convention.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Finn is among those composers who followed in Stephen Sondheim's footsteps by forging intricate and psychologically potent music and lyrics; genius storyteller Lapine also collaborated with Sondheim.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
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By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
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However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
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“Satirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirist. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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