satirist

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Recent Examples of satirist Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist. Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025 Jules Feiffer, the provocative satirist, cartoonist, playwright and 1960s counterculturist who wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols‘ classic Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman‘s Popeye, has died. Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025 The Mark Twain Prize honors individuals who've made an impact on American society in ways similar to the award's namesake, the satirist and social commentator who was born Samuel Clemens. Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 16 Jan. 2025 The red carpet show hosted prior to the event on ITV 2 will be presented by DJ Harriet Rose alongside satirist and comedian Munya Chawawa. Thomas Smith, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for satirist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirist
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • James, written by author and professor Percival Everett and narrated by Dominic Hoffman took home the award for Best Literary Fiction & Classics, while There's Always This Year written and narrated by poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib took home Best Non-Fiction.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
  • More than a decade later, there’s still an essayist’s economy in Hunter’s writing.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Included among dozens of other characters are a submarine commander and his crew, a creepy coroner, a sweaty spy, an American flyboy, and even the soon-to-be spy novelist Ian Fleming.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In Grade’s lifetime, he was considered one of the most important living Yiddish novelists—by those who could read Yiddish.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.
    Mark Holgate, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • During a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, several SNL veterans reflected on how celebrities reacted to their impressionists on the show.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Zoom in: Also on display are Japanese woodblock prints from artists like Toyokuni and Hiroshige — works Monet and his fellow impressionists were deeply inspired by them when crafting their own re-creations of nature.
    Meira Gebel, Axios, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Heart, humor, and hurt combine in the playwright's (played by Andrew Barth Feldman) real-life tale of growing up caught in the crossfire between his traumatized mother (Jeanine Serralles) and eccentric/alcoholic grandmother (a sublime Joanna Gleason).
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • With offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Austin, ILP works closely with book authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, along with their representatives, heirs and estate managers.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Minter is also a corporate strategist, a farmer, historian, storyteller, and HBCU advocate.
    Will Minter, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Young Harper needs a story to sleep, but the storytellers can’t agree on how the story should go.
    Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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