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as in parodist
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as in essayist
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Recent Examples of satirist
Opened by Irishmen Mike Jewell and Danny McDonald in 1995 and named after the Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, the East Village’s Swift Hibernian Lounge checks all those boxes.
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airmail.news, 7 Aug. 2024
In his second theatrical film, multi-hyphenate Mehran Modiri, one of Iran’s most beloved TV satirists, turns his hand to the thriller genre with mixed results.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
The banana is part of a piece of artwork called Comedian, created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan.
—Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Ingenious, by Richard Munson Benjamin Franklin isn’t simply a skilled political thinker, diplomat, and satirist in Richard Munson’s biography.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2024
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airmail.news, 7 Aug. 2024
In his second theatrical film, multi-hyphenate Mehran Modiri, one of Iran’s most beloved TV satirists, turns his hand to the thriller genre with mixed results.
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
The banana is part of a piece of artwork called Comedian, created by the Italian artist and satirist Maurizio Cattelan.
—Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
Ingenious, by Richard Munson Benjamin Franklin isn’t simply a skilled political thinker, diplomat, and satirist in Richard Munson’s biography.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirist
Noun
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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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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Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.—
Lilly Milman,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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In 2019, essayist Sarah Chihaya had a nervous breakdown that coincided with a bout of the titular anxiety disorder, which causes someone to have an intense and irrational fear of books and writing.—
Shannon Carlin,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
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When the teens travel to Capri for a summer getaway, Parthenope develops a chance bond with one of her favorite authors, real-life novelist John Cheever, played by Gary Oldman.—
Mike Miller,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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On Boxing Day, 2022, Kureishi, a novelist and screenwriter, experienced an accident that left him tetraplegic.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The authority has invested in developing the island’s talented artists, dramatists, songwriters, dancers and filmmakers, as well as in establishing a year-round calendar of vibrant cultural events, including the unmissable Tobago Carnival in October.—
Tobago House of Assembly,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2025
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That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.—
Matt Wolf,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Thank you so much to former Dylan impressionist and expert Patrick Weathers on his commentary during today’s show.—
Andy Hoglund,
EW.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s attacks were historically atypical: Most politicians actually did seem to get the joke, sometimes even sharing the stage with their impressionists.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2025
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The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Instead, Larson will win it behind the strength of Hendrick Motorsports, the New York Yankees of NASCAR — setting him up for another championship-contending Cup season and leaving all motorsport storytellers despondent, wondering what could’ve been.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Feb. 2025
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The writer of the issue was Peter David, a prolific genre storyteller whose own father fled the Nazis and who would later take to his website to compare the first Trump administration to Hitler.—
Darren Franich,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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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 21 Feb. 2025.
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