The organization is widely seen as a satire that mocks organized religion, or as the church describes itself, " a cynisacreligion.

Paul Salzman, taking Menippean satire as a genre as " rather ill-defined ", describes it as a mixture of allegory, picaresque narrative and satirical commentary.

The New York Times review of the first volume, The Invaders ' Plan, describes it thus: "... a paralyzingly slow-moving adventure enlivened by interludes of kinky sex, sendups of effeminate homosexuals and a disregard of conventional grammar so global as to suggest a satire on the possibility of communication through language.

In his epigram " To Nysus ", for example, Sedley describes the function of satire and emphasizes the aggressive mode of satire: " Let us write satyr than, and at our ease / Vex the ill-natur'd Fools we cannot please.

Reportedly inspired by Billionaires for Bush, this political parody group describes its mission as " to inform voters with satire and irony, how political candidates make decisions based on the failed social economic principles of communism.

" Planet Simpson author Chris Turner describes the episode as " the most contentious and direct counterattack The Simpsons ever unleashed on its fans " and " satire of the working world of big-time TV production ".

In his book Revolution in the Head, music critic Ian MacDonald describes " Piggies " as a " bludgeoning satire on straight society ", dismissing the song as " dreadful " and " an embarrassing blot on ( Harrison's ) discography.

Even more notorious was La Retorica delle puttane (" The Rhetoric of Whores "), which Muir describes as a " scandalous anti-Jesuit work ", which " demonstrates why Pallavicino was the only Italian author of his epoch capable of a coherent vision that integrated satire, skepticism, and naturalistic morality.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

With Private Eye riding the satire boom, Peter Cook soon took an interest and contributed two serials recounting the bizarre adventures of Sir Basil Nardly-Strobes and the Rhandi Phurr, both of which were admirably illustrated by Rushton, as was " Mrs Wilson ‘ s Diary ".

Set in the Okefenokee Swamp of the southeastern United States, the strip often engages in social and political satire through the adventures of its anthropomorphic funny animal characters.

Very much a satire on banana republic politics and a parody of adventures set in Latin America.

* The spiffy adventures of McConey ( Les formidables aventures de Lapinot ; 10 official volumes ), which mix satire and fantasy.

Li ' l Abner: A Study in American Satire by Arthur Asa Berger ( Twayne, 1969 ) contained serious analyses of Capp's narrative technique, his use of dialogue, self-caricature and grotesquerie, the place of Li ' l Abner in American satire, and the significance of social criticism and the graphic image.

Jay Cocks called the screenplay a " snarling, overwrought and somewhat parochial satire on aristocracy and privileged morality "; he called the film " wretchedly photographed ... as if it were shot under floodlights "; in contrast Cocks praised the performances by Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, William Mervyn, Coral Browne, and James Villiers, but reserves most of his praise for O ' Toole, saying his performance is of " such intensity that it may trouble sleep as surely as it will haunt memory.

A satire on the religious opinions of some of the chief popular writers of the day ( including Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ).

Li ' l Abner: A Study in American Satire by Arthur Asa Berger ( Twayne, 1969 ) contained serious analyses of Capp's narrative technique, his use of dialogue, self-caricature and grotesquerie, the strip's overall place in American satire, and the significance of social criticism and the graphic image.

There were many 19th century examples of attacks on Enlightenment concepts, parody, and playfulness in literature, including Lord Byron's satire, especially Don Juan ; Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ; Alfred Jarry's ribald Ubu parodies and his invention of ' Pataphysics ; Lewis Carroll's playful experiments with signification ; the work of Isidore Ducasse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde.

" Austen's satire of the hypochondriac Parker sisters ( who project their hypochondria on to their brother Arthur as well ) is poignant in light of her own serious illness at the time.

Armour and Mellody Farms appear ( under pseudonyms ) in Arthur Meeker, Jr .' s1949 social satire Prairie Avenue.

He privately published Alice Through The Paper-Mill, an Alice In Wonderland inspired satire on war-time paper control regulations with 12 illustrations by Arthur Wragg.

In Isaiah 44: 09 – 20 this is developed into a satire on the making and worship of idols, mocking the foolishness of the carpenter who worships the idol that he himself has carved.

The results of all these efforts were recognized even by Seneca, who has an ancient Latin god defend Claudius in his satire.

Mesnager ( 1717 ), in which he impersonates Nicolas Mesnager, the French plenipotentiary who negotiated the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and A Continuation of the Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy ( 1718 ), a satire on European politics and religion, professedly written by a Muslim in Paris.

Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire.

Infused with the surrealistic satire that characterized the young Fellini ’ s work at Marc ’ Aurelio, the film ridiculed a crusader against vice who goes insane trying to censor a billboard of Anita Ekberg espousing the virtues of milk.

The Happy Land ( Court Theatre, 1873 ), a daring political satire and burlesque of W. S. Gilbert's The Wicked World, was written in collaboration with Gilbert, who wrote under the pseudonym F. L. Tomline.

The legend of Pope Joan was " effectively demolished " by David Blondel, a mid-17th century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who died in his early 20s.

The first Roman to discuss satire critically was Quintilian, who invented the term to describe the writings of Lucilius.

Therefore, the satire of Gombrowicz presents the human being either as a member of a society or an individual who struggles with himself and the world.

She appeared in a number of his films, including Darling Lili, 10, Victor Victoria and the autobiographical satire S. O. B., in which Andrews played a character who was a caricature of herself.

Dickens's satire on Catlin and others like him who might find something to admire in the American Indians or African bushmen is a notable turning point in the history of the use of the phrase.

About the same time he published Passavantius,, a satire directed against Pierre Lizet, the former president of the Parliament of Paris, and principal originator of the " fiery chamber " ( chambre ardente ), who, at the time ( 1551 ) was abbot of St. Victor near Paris and publishing a number of polemical writings.

Jim and Jim, the Burnhams ' other neighbors, are a satire of " gay bourgeois coupledom ", who " in the numbing sameness " that the film criticizes in heterosexual couples.

Crassus ' homonymous grandfather, M. Licinius Crassus ( praetor c. 126 BC ), was facetiously given the Greek nickname Agelastus ( the grim ) by his contemporary Gaius Lucilius, the famous inventor of Roman satire, who asserted that he smiled once in his whole life.

He soon became famous for his rhetoric, satire and translations and was held in high esteem by the printer William Caxton, who wrote, in the preface to The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vargyle ( Modern English: The Book of the Aeneid, compiled by Virgil ) ( 1490 ):

Supporters included American writer Mark Twain, who wrote a stinging political satire entitled King Leopold's Soliloquy, in which the King supposedly argues that bringing Christianity to the country outweighs a little starvation.

Weaver gives a close impression of the gravel-voiced sports announcer Clem McCarthy in a satire of a horse race announcer who forgets whether he's covering a horse race or a boxing match (" It's Girdle in the stretch!

It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society.

English readers were familiar with Mother Hubbard, already a stock figure when Edmund Spenser published his satire " Mother Hubbard's tale ", 1590 ; with the superstitious advice on getting a husband or a wife of " Mother Bunch ", who was credited with the fairy stories of Madame d ' Aulnoy when they first appeared in English.

In Lucian's satiric dialogue Assembly of the Gods ( ca 165 CE ) it is Momus who is the secretary when the gods stage a city meeting as if at Athens, to decide what to do about newly-arrived outsiders and metics, the target of the satire being the recent development of complete enfranchisement of unworthy outsiders ( Lucian himself being of Syrian origin ).

Mr. Question Man, who answered viewer queries, was a satire on the long-run ( 1937 – 56 ) radio series, The Answer Man.

The older style of stand-up comedy ( no social satire ) was kept alive by Rodney Dangerfield and Buddy Hackett, who enjoyed revived careers late in life.

Mr. and Mrs. Robot were a satire of Shields and Yarnell ( popular mimes of the period ) who performed a routine as a robotic couple called, " The Clinkers ".

Juvenal, in his 15th satire, has given a lively description of a fight, of which he was an eye-witness, between the Ombitae and the inhabitants of Tentyra, who were hunters of the crocodile.