Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, was a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots.

In Merriman's hands, the convention is made to take a satirical and deeply ironic twist.

provided a satirical take on World War I, which was released in a cinematic version directed by Richard Attenborough in 1969.

The college has since seen the release of a student publication calling itself The Breezeblock, containing both college gossip and a satirical take on college life.

The tone of the sketch was set by the magazine's satirical take on the Blair government and its personalities.

Typical of Wilkes, the title was a satirical take on the Earl's newspaper, The Briton, with North Briton referring to Scotland.

Many stories are satirical and take on the real world political divide between the Italian Roman Catholic Church and the Italian Communist Party, not to mention other worldly politics.

Subvertisements may take the form of a new image or an alteration to an existing image or icon, often in a satirical manner.

Clough is perhaps best known now for his short poems Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth, a rousing call to tired soldiers to keep up the good fight, Through a Glass Darkly, an exploration of religious doubt, and The Latest Decalogue, a satirical take on the Ten Commandments.

The Annals of Improbable Research ( AIR ) is a bi-monthly magazine devoted to scientific humor, in the form of a satirical take on the standard academic journal.

The photographs were intended as a mocking and satirical take on pro-ana.

* Oyk An Lavis Para Tou Mi Exontos ( You can not take from someone who does not have ), satirical animation comedy

This satirical take on industrialization and the rhetoric of General Electric and the big corporations, which discussed arguments very topical in the post-war capitalist United States, was instead advertised by the publisher with the more innocuous and marketable label of " science fiction ", a genre that was booming in mass popular culture in the 1950s.

Recent work has included Dead White Males, a satirical approach to postmodernism and university ethics ; Up for Grabs, which starred Madonna in its London premiere ; and the Jack Manning Trilogy ( Face To Face, Conversation, Charitable Intent ) which take as their format community conferencing, a new form of restorative justice, in which Williamson became interested in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

His take on belief in the afterlife is satirical.

Other critics, such as the Boston Globe, praised Stiller's satirical take on male virility and praised the chemistry between Vince Vaughn and Christine Taylor.

In Merriman's hands, the convention is made to take a satirical and deeply ironic twist.

His satirical online take down of James Frey was named one of the " Top 26 Cultural Moments Of The Decade " by Slate cultural critic Troy Patterson.

The strips tend to take many free-associative liberties and are by turns satirical and surreal, often whimsical and sometimes touching on serious themes.

The comic book is a satirical take on classic secret agents laden with surreal and black humour, sardonic references to aspects of the contemporary Italian and Western society.

In 2000 he returned to television with the serial Office Office a highly acclaimed satirical take on the prevalent corruption in India.

Kapadia was cast in Zoya Akhtar's first directorial venture, Luck By Chance ( 2009 ), a satirical take on the Hindi film industry.

The story is a satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land.

Tess Turbo was a rebellious rock star who first appeared at the Meadow Party's 1984 benefit concert, ( a satirical take on Steve Wozniak's Us Festival ) with Opus playing air guitar behind her.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity ( frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another ), and satirical comments on social class.

" He chose to make The Great Dictator — a " satirical attack on fascism " and his " most overtly political film ".

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

First published on April 16, 1989 Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character.

Of higher literary value is the didactic and satirical Buch von der Tugend und Weisheit ( 1550 ), a collection of forty-nine fables in which Alberus embodies his views on the relations of Church and State.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

a satirical attack on the traditions of the European society, of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511, dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More, and inspired by De triumpho stultitiae, written by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli born at Tredozio, near Forlì.

Abraham Akkerman preceded his article on human automatism in the contemporary city with a short satirical poem on a pair of golems turning human.

Much of Banksy's artwork can be seen around the streets of London and surrounding suburbs, though he has painted pictures around the world, including the Middle East, where he has painted on Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.

This campaign was sponsored by the free newsweekly East Bay Express as a satirical comment on the recall.

The program, a hodgepodge of satirical news commentary, music, and sketch comedy, is carried on many public radio stations throughout the United States.

This material was later used as an element of his satirical US presidential campaign in 1968, and was included on his 1968 comedy album Pat Paulsen for President.

Only one issue was ever published, but it was relatively successful, largely owing to the inclusion of Heinrich Heine's satirical odes on King Ludwig of Bavaria, which led to those copies sent to Germany being confiscated by the state's police force.

Both before and after World War II, numerous satirical cartoons and comedy skits were written, mostly in Australia, based on events of the bodyline tour.

These aggadic explanations could be philosophical or mystical disquisitions concerning angels, demons, paradise, hell, the messiah, Satan, feasts and fasts, parables, legends, satirical assaults on those who practice idolatry, etc.

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.

Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on " those wonderful Berlin cabarets ... which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War "; as a members-only venue it was outside the censorship restrictions.

In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway.