Satire

A satire is a device used to highlight, expose and criticise people's behaviour. To achieve this, it employs strong irony or sarcasm and some humor. Childish name-calling never forms a part of satire. Parody is a popular sub-form of satire.

Popular Satires

Television

• That Was The Week That Was (TW3)
• Family Guy
• The Simpsons
• South Park
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• The Colbert Report
• Saturday Night Live
• MADtv
• The Chaser's War on Everything (ABC Australia)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus

Movies

• Team America: World Police
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Monty Python's Life of Brian

Literature

• Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
• A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
• The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope
• Candide, by Voltaire
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

Musical Theatre

• Spamalot
• Avenue Q
• Bye, Bye, Birdie

See also

• Leftism and humor
• Comedy and satires concerning atheism and evolution