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as in parodist
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as in essayist
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Recent Examples of satirist
Since his feature debut Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy hit theaters in 2004, McKay has emerged as one of Hollywood's foremost cinematic satirists.
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EW.com, 6 Nov. 2024
There’s a recurrent overstating of baseball’s significance: the satirist Ring Lardner called it the World Serious.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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EW.com, 6 Nov. 2024
There’s a recurrent overstating of baseball’s significance: the satirist Ring Lardner called it the World Serious.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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.
—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
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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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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold chronicles the life of the essayist, novelist, screenwriter and critic Joan Didon through personal stories from behind the influential work.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Buy Now: Second Life on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong (May 13) Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong’s third novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a big-hearted ode to second chances.Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
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This version features the star casting of Nick Jonas as the novelist Jamie, with Adrienne Warren (of Tina) as the shiksa goddess Cathy.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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The insider crowd at the opening party at a modernist house in Baldwin Hills included a healer, a graphic novelist, a magician, a rapper.Travis Diehl, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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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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So, like four Rashomons, if Rashomon had an impressionist doing their best Ed Sullivan at one point in each segment.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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Harris made her appearance during the cold open alongside her impressionist, comedian Maya Rudolph, who was dressed in an identical outfit.Filip Timotija, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
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Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Signing on for privacy Related Articles Saratoga Symphony makes ‘Impressions’ with free concert Pianist/playwright breaks his own box office record at TheatreWorks Milpitas residents started the new year with a new tool to protect their privacy and property rights.Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
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From iconic performers and gifted storytellers to fearless activists and pioneering visionaries, these figures left an indelible mark on the world and our communities.Okla Jones, Essence, 12 Jan. 2025
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If Rupert needs to stay gone and there's no further use for him, James isn't the kind of storyteller who will bring him back as a favor to me.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 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 20 Jan. 2025.
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