Neal Pollack ( born March 1, 1970 ) is an American satirist, novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

Long after the Romans conquered the Gauls, the Roman satirist Lucian wrote a satirical story about Celtic beliefs.

Charles Dickens is one of several Victorian authors whose work alluded to the story and the pictorial satirist William Hogarth referenced the ghost in two of his prints.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg.

Peter Edward Cook ( 17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995 ) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian.

By about the 4th century AD the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus ; St. Jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies ' a satirist in prose ' (' satyricus scriptor in prosa ').

* June 24 – Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American writer and satirist ( d. ca.

" O ' Rourke ( born November 14, 1947 ) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author.

* September 8 – Joseph Hall ( English Bishop and satirist ), English bishop and writer ( b. 1574 )

American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion.

Jaroslav Hašek (; April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923 ) was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages.

* Karl Julius Weber ( 1767-1832 ), German writer and satirist

Celebrated attendees included actor / writer / composer Peter Serafinowicz and satirist / writer / broadcaster Victor Lewis-Smith.

* Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a notable writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures of the women's movement of Iran

* Alan Coren – writer and satirist, who " did for the unprepossessing North London suburb of Cricklewood what Hardy did for Wessex "

* Stephen Colbert ( b. 1964 ), American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host

The paper's most prominent columnists include writer and arts commentator Fintan O ' Toole and the satirist Miriam Lord.

Kurt Tucholsky ( January 9, 1890 – December 21, 1935 ) was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer.

John Fortune ( born John Wood ; 30 June 1939 ) is a British satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune.

The work discusses the life and times of the writer and satirist François Rabelais with emphases on what the author considers to be the powerful role of humour in medieval and early times.

He is a self-proclaimed satirist, whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style.

Noteworthy in the Roman period were Strabo, a writer on geography ; Plutarch, the father of biography, whose Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans is a chief source of information about great figures of antiquity ; Pausanias, a travel writer ; and Lucian, a satirist.

* November 17-Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer ( died 1995 )

Throughout its long history the cathedral has contributed much to Irish life, and one key aspect of this relates to the writer and satirist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, who was Dean of the cathedral from 1713 to 1745.

In August 1879 he acquired Le Canard from publisher and satirist Hector Berthelot.

The unsparing satirist described the professor's face as the " gloomiest " in the whole procession of ecclesiastics which took place on Good Friday.

Also with the emergence of alternative comedy in the 80s which took a far more mordant and satirical attitude towards politicians ( Yarwood saw himself as an all round family entertainer rather than a satirist ), his career never recovered and the loss of some of his most loved characters and its fragility was directly linked to the politicians he impersonated.

Parkinson, who partnered Paul Merton on the episode, took considerable ribbing ( although the injunction prevented any reference to his major scandal ) but emerged from the programme intact: even opposing captain and satirist Ian Hislop admitted afterwards that he had come across very well.

James Bramston ( circa 1694-1744 ), satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting.

Other important 19th-century developments included the fabulist Ivan Krylov ; non-fiction writers such as Vissarion Belinsky and Alexander Herzen ; playwrights such as Aleksandr Griboyedov, Aleksandr Ostrovsky and the satirist Kozma Prutkov ( a collective pen name ).

* Saki, the pen name of Edwardian satirist H. H.

Living by his pen, Smollett was prolific and variously successful as an editor, translator, dramatist, political satirist, historian and poet.

The satirist Lucian, in his True History, describes him as a Babylonian called Tigranes, who assumed the name Homer when taken " hostage " ( homeros ) by the Greeks.

" It is not a name but a misspelling ," said satirist H. H. Munro.

In the second century AD the satirist Lucian wrote that Sostratus inscribed his name under plaster bearing the name of Ptolemy.

* John Wolcot ( 1738 – 1819 ), poet and satirist who wrote under the name of " Peter Pindar ", was born here.

The name Itami was passed on from his father, Mansaku Itami — who had himself been a renowned satirist and film director before World War II.

The Twelfth Man ( also known as The 12th Man ) is the name for a series of comedy productions by Australian satirist Billy Birmingham.

His grandson, under the name Patrick Campbell, was a noted satirist in the early years of television.

Both points were ridiculed by CBC satirist Rick Mercer who sponsored an online contest that went on to name Atchison " Canada's Craziest Mayor.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery ( stage name Kennedy ; born September 8, 1972 ) is an American political satirist, radio personality, and former MTV VJ.

Daniele Luttazzi ( born January 26, 1961 ), real name Daniele Fabbri, is an Italian theater actor, writer, satirist, illustrator and singer / songwriter.

Some European adventurers circulated popular tales about the him under the erroneous name Turk Mahmud Shah I (" Begada "), " the Poison Sultan ," and those became the source for the English satirist Samuel Butler's seventeenth-century lines: " The Prince of Cambay's daily food / Is asp and basilisk and toad ".