His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010, and his second book Not Taco Bell Material also reached New York Times bestseller status and received widespread acclaim for its cutting social commentary and humor.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

Capp turned that world upside-down by routinely injecting politics and social commentary into Li ' l Abner.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

With their careful construction — and in the case of Easy Street and The Immigrant, their social commentary — these films are considered by Chaplin scholars to be among his finest work.

Although this can be seen as social commentary, Chaplin's films did not contain overt political themes or messages until later on his career in the 1930s.

While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse, others contain political or social commentary ( such as Wag the Dog and Man of the Year ).

Toward the end of the 1950s, darker humour and more serious themes had begun to emerge, including satire and social commentary.

The comics have long held a distorted mirror to contemporary society, and almost from the beginning have been used for political or social commentary.

In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

Lyrically, the band continued their trademark social commentary, with songs such as " MTV Get Off The Air " and " Jock-o-rama " poking fun at mainstream America.

In the 19th century it was seen as a social commentary, but no one could easily tell " whose side Cervantes was on ".

Doonesbury became well known for its social and political commentary, always timely, and peppered with wry and ironic humor.

Their music and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly satirical social commentary.

" One commentary characterizes the remark as making economics an approach rather than a subject matter but with great specificity as to the " choice process and the type of social interaction that analysis involves.

Part of the strip's broad appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary ; though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his " grasp of politics isn't strong ", remarking that, for many years, he thought " OPEC was a denture adhesive ".

He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games.

Lester del Rey described it simply as " a bad book ," marked more by routine social commentary than by scientific insight or extrapolation.

* Tandy, David W., and Neale, Walter C., Works and Days: a translation and commentary for the social sciences, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Utilizing social commentary as a " springboard to deeper truths about the individual ", Basquiat's paintings also attacked power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.

His repertoire mixed social commentary (" We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You ") and maudlin ballads (" Western Union Wire ") with raucous humor ( such as " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in Bed ").

Traditional free-form stations prided themselves on offering their disc jockeys freedom to play significant music and make significant social commentary and humor.

Developing his talents as an MC with Flavor Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D ( Carlton Douglas Ridenhour ) and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record " Check Out the Radio ," backed by " Lies ," a social commentary — both of which would influence RUSH Productions ' Run-D. M. C.

The art of the novel reached a pinnacle in Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber, but its combination of social commentary and psychological insight were echoed in highly skilled novels such as Wu Jingzi's The Scholars ( 1750 ) and Li Ruzhen's Flowers in the Mirror ( 1827 ).

The song was a danzón, a dance form descended from European social dances like the English country dance, French contredanse, and Spanish contradanza.

A protest song is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs ( or songs connected to current events ).

" Goodnight Irene ", for example, acquired the aura of a protest song because it was written by Lead Belly, a black convict and social outcast, although on its face it is a love song.

Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, in Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Tradition in the Twentieth Century ( 1998 ), take issue with what they consider Denisoff's reductive approach to the history and function of song ( and particularly traditional song ) in social movements.

While it was primarily a comical song about a Judge and his courtroom it is also notable for the political lyrics " I'm goin ' to Paris to stop this war " and " I had a chat with Ho Chi Minh " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace Accord negotiations to stop the war in Vietnam.

Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.

Chilean social rock group Los Prisioneros mention the Sandinistas in their song ¿ Quién mató a Marilyn ?, in a passage asking who killed Marilyn Monroe.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.

Samba Schools are large, social entities with thousands of members and a theme for their song and parade each year.

Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and personal freedom, expressed for example in The Beatles ' song " All You Need is Love ".

Having grown up as the child of working class Spanish immigrants in the Ruhr Valley, and coming of age in the politically polarized era of the German Autumn ( his response the left wing extremist terrorism of that time being thematized in the 2003 song " Kinderzimmer ( Heldenlied )" Bedroom ( Hero Song )", he was blunt and unromantically detached about social reality in West Germany, and unapologetic about the provocative potential of his songs.

Sting had first shown his interest in social and political issues in his 1980 Police song " Driven to Tears ", an angry indictment of apathy in the face of world hunger.

Singer / song writer, documentary film producers for their commitment to the environment through the establishment of the Rainforest Foundation ; to human rights in China through the documentary film on Tiananmen Square ; and to peace and social justice through the powerful gift of song.

* The Dead Kennedys ' song, " I Am The Owl ", is about government surveillance and social engineering of political groups.

This is extended in the latter part of the song to those who make half-hearted attempts at social change, and who protest the " big " problems but are not willing to make changes in their own lives to respect what they claim is right for all of society.

This song exhorts the listener to " wake up " to political and social action.

During his time in Rishikesh, Lennon decided to write a song about the recent wave of social upheaval.

The poem was included in many anthologies, and was used in a later period as a celebration song of a long life by people of all social statures.

The poem and song titled " Szózat ", which starts with the words Hazádnak rendületlenül légy híve, óh magyar ( To your homeland be faithful steadfastly, O Hungarian ) enjoys a social status nearly equal to that of " Himnusz ", even though only " Himnusz " is mentioned in the Constitution of Hungary.

During these social evenings each lady and gentleman present was “ called upon in turn for a song ” as they sipped tea or coffee.

A longer version of the song was released as a single on Atlantic Records, reaching No. 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart early in 1972 ; the additional lyrics in this longer version lend the song a greater sense of sadness, and make poignant reference to social changes taking place in the 1960s and early 1970s A few perceptible drifts can be observed when listening to each version chronologically: In the original version Jean Stapleton was wearing glasses and after the first time the lyric " Those Were The Days " was sung over the tonic ( root chord of the song's key ) the piano strikes a Dominant 7th chord in transition to the next part which is absent from subsequent versions.