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Recent Examples of satirist
Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.
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Martha Bayles, National Review, 15 May 2025
As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Greg Gutfeld, Fox News’s late-night satirist, scoffed at the idea that Mr. Newsom and Mr. Walz were trying to define masculinity for the Democratic Party.
—Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
In 2012, Kilmer poured himself into Citizen Twain, a one-man play which saw the actor transformed — in a white suit, wig and shaggy mustache — into America’s greatest satirist, Mark Twain.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
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Martha Bayles, National Review, 15 May 2025
As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Greg Gutfeld, Fox News’s late-night satirist, scoffed at the idea that Mr. Newsom and Mr. Walz were trying to define masculinity for the Democratic Party.
—Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
In 2012, Kilmer poured himself into Citizen Twain, a one-man play which saw the actor transformed — in a white suit, wig and shaggy mustache — into America’s greatest satirist, Mark Twain.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
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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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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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King has a blogger’s punch and an essayist’s analysis—her dexterous writing is intelligent, observant, and very, very funny.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The headphones allowed Saenz de Viteri to speak to each audience member directly, as a writer speaks to each reader, and alternate points-of-view from omniscient distance one minute to character interiority the next, like a daring novelist.—
Brian Schaefer
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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That story is about two men, one an up-and-coming-actor and the other a want-to-be novelist, who fall into a deep brotherhood while sleeping with the same woman.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Chloe Fineman is becoming Saturday Night Live's resident master impressionist.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum fills in the gaps, connecting the old world to the new with impressionists and abstract pioneers.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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Over the ensuing decades, Giard photographed writers working across many genres—playwrights, poets, novelists, theorists, memoirists, critics, even cookbook authors.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 June 2025
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Five years later, playwright and producer Vanessa Lynn filed a lawsuit against TPS, accusing the mogul of idea theft over his TV series The Have and Have Nots.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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Star Wars books From the days of the High Republic to the Rise of the First Order, storytellers from across the Star Wars galaxy offer behind-the-scenes stories.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Hill, the son of Stephen King, is an enthralling storyteller.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
10 July 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 18 Jul. 2025.
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