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Scott Raymond Adams ( born June 8, 1957 ) is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.
Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions.
He illustrated with notes several of the classics which he printed, and was the author of numerous pieces, amongst which are a life of Thomas a Kempis, and a satire on the follies of women, entitled Navicula Stultarum Mulierum.
* The 1992 satire film Bob Roberts includes several scenes that are influenced by the movie, including a clear parody of the opening scene, complete with misspelled words (" Dange ", for example ).
Though differing with Whistler on several points, including his insistence that poetry was a higher form of art than painting, Oscar Wilde was generous in his praise and hailed the lecture a masterpiece: " not merely for its clever satire and amusing jests … but for the pure and perfect beauty of many of its passages.
In its turn, this would promote developments such as Cretan poetry, the growth of poetic satire in the Greek East and the several pre-eminent historians of the period.
It works simultaneously as social history, as a love story, as an examination of several different kinds of film narrative, as satire and as parody.
Douglas has tried her hand at writing and directing, with a comedy short The Perfect Woman ( 1993 ), the documentary Everybody Just Stay Calm — Stories in Independent Filmmaking ( 1994 ), and the satire Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier ( 1995 ); and she has been the producer for several projects including Illeanarama, a collection of her short films for the Sundance Channel.
Formally, the satire in the Tale is historically novel for several reasons.
He has also recently done work in several short films, including the latest by Tim Russ, called Plugged, a satire on modern advertising.
He had several other publications that year besides Pericles, including " Letter from a Conservative ", " A Satire on Satirists " which included a criticism of Wordsworth's failure to appreciate Southey, Alabiadas the Young Man, and " Terry Hogan ", a satire on Irish priests.
He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys ( 1961 ), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War !.
Over the next 16 years, Ashby directed several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude and the social satire Being There with Peter Sellers, resuscitating the career of a brilliant actor who many felt had lapsed into self-parody.
" However Vincent Canby in The New York Times was more favourable and drew comparisons to " an upscale John Waters satire " and " Jean-Luc Godard's pre-Maoist period " In January 1988 the film was one of several attacked in the Sunday Times by Oxford University historian Norman Stone for their critique of Thatcherite society and values, Stone describing them as " worthless and insulting " and " riddled with left wing bias ".
A good example of this is a maqama on musk, which purports to compare the feature of different perfumes but is in fact a work of political satire comparing several competing rulers.
Publication of Le Sopha, conte moral, an erotic political satire, in 1742 forced him into exile from Paris for several months.
Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors and film goers.
During the late 1990s early 2000s several young filmmakers started exploring genre-films which had earlier been almost non-existent, Mikael Håfström's slasher film Strandvaskaren, Anders Banke's vampire comedy Frostbite, Anders Jacobsson's satire Evil Ed and Måns Mårlind's and Björn Stein's fantasy-thriller Storm.
* A similar idea was used in Neal Stephenson's 1984 university satire The Big U. In the novel several live action role playing gamers head into their University's sewers to play a game called " Sewers and Serpents ".
In the second half of the fifteenth century stands in the field of dialect literature Gian Giorgio Allioni of Asti, poet, playwright and writer who knowing poetry in French and Italian, wrote several farces in dialect, expressing " an Astezan " and providing a vivid picture of customs and life of the period and the Italian theater of the sixteenth century, often steeped in satire and mockery.
It is a satire of the action genre and its clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film.
Davenport went on to author several autobiographical books and went on the lecture circuit, traveling the world speaking on cartoons, satire and Silverton.
Duncombe and his benefactions to St Magnus feature prominently in Daniel Defoe's The True-Born Englishman, a biting satire on critics of William III that went through several editions from 1700 ( the year in which Duncombe was elected Sheriff ).
Stuart Gordon has been quoted on several occasions as expressing a desire to make a fourth installment in the series, entitled House of Re-Animator ; this film would, he claims, be a political satire wherein West moves into the White House and re-animates the deceased Vice President.
Thomas Dangerfield supplied the court with a list of forty-eight members of the Green Ribbon Club in 1679 ; and although Dangerfield's numerous perjuries make his unsupported evidence worthless, it receives confirmation as regards several names from a list given to James II by Nathan Wade in 1685 ( Harleian manuscripts 1845 ), while a number of more eminent personages are mentioned in The Cabal, a satire published in 1680, as also frequenting the club.

satire and Batman
"); for a combined satire of the Batman television series and the 1966 California Governor's race between Edmund G. " Pat " Brown and Ronald Reagan ; and probably most famous for a bit in which, through the magic of sound effects, Freberg drained Lake Michigan and refilled it with hot chocolate and a mountain of whipped cream while a giant maraschino cherry was dropped like a bomb by the Royal Canadian Air Force to the cheers of 25, 000 extras viewing from the shoreline.
Although it was initially meant to be a satire of other superheroes, most prominently Batman, it has since evolved into an independent comic sporting a complex, evolving continuity.

satire and villains
Another running gag is a satire on the fact that Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman and Brian Blessed are often typecast as over-the-top, melodramatic or camp stock villains in films and TV shows.
Some of them ( especially after the introduction of the Boss Borot ), were heavy on slapstick and jokes, even to the point of making fun of the hero and the villains ; others carried strong melodramatic touches ( this characteristic of heavy satire humor and melodrama were in fact staples of almost all of Go Nagai's creations in manga, even before their adaptations to the small screen ).
Even The Beggar's Opera, which is a satire of Robert Walpole, portrays its characters with compassion: the villains have pathetic songs in their own right and are acting out of exigency rather than boundless evil.

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Toward the end of the 1950s, darker humour and more serious themes had begun to emerge, including satire and social commentary.
He also wrote realistic novels that received critical acclaim, including Kipps and a satire on Edwardian advertising, Tono-Bungay.
His many books included poems and plays ; works of satire ( Candide ); books on history, science, and philosophy, including numerous ( anonymous ) contributions to the Encyclopédie ; and an extensive correspondence.
He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.
A minority ( including Jean-Jacques Rousseau ) could interpret The Prince as a satire meant to be given to the Medici after their recapture of Florence and their subsequent expulsion of Machiavelli from Florence.
1867 edition of Punch ( magazine ) | Punch, a ground-breaking United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene.
Under totalitarian regimes any criticism of a political system including satire is suppressed.
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.
He revitalized his career with The Player ( 1992 ), a satire of Hollywood, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Director.
Several of Iolanthe's themes are continued from Patience, including the war between the sexes and the satire on legal and political themes.
Ebert has been known to comment on films using his own Roman Catholic upbringing as a point of reference, and has been critical of films he believes are grossly ignorant of or insulting to Catholicism, such as Stigmata and Priest, though he has given favorable reviews of controversial films with themes or references to Jesus and Catholicism, including The Passion of the Christ, The Last Temptation of Christ, and to Kevin Smith's religious satire Dogma.
In the 1970s he also acted in radio comedies, including the weekly topical satire Week Ending ( in which he regularly played such figures as then UK Foreign Secretary Dr David Owen ) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( as the " B Ark Captain " in the sixth episode, in an in-joking reference to his Week Ending role as Owen ).
The festival is also a time to dress up in costume, including costumes involving political comments and satire.
She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers ' satire I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).
For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
The 1960s had also seen the satire boom, including the creation of the club, The Establishment, which, amongst other things, gave British audiences their first taste of extreme American stand-up comedy from Lenny Bruce.
The title was a mix of traditional superhero storytelling and satire, including the phrase " hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength " being repeated many times, and Toxie's " Tromatons " erupting when he was in danger similar to Spider-Man's spider-sense.
The ordinance drew national attention, including a mention by The Tonight Show host Jay Leno and Comedy Central's news satire The Daily Show.
Astin continued to appear in films throughout the 1990s, including the Showtime science fiction film Harrison Bergeron ( 1995 ), the Gulf War film Courage Under Fire ( 1996 ), and the Warren Beatty political satire Bulworth ( 1998 ).
In this satire, Margo Pain gets Shad, as she calls him, into various predicaments, including fights with gangsters and a piano falling on him from above.
This triumph was followed in 1966 by the acclaimed satire on Cold War paranoia, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, which was the first film Jewison also produced, and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The libretto does contain considerable humour, including a lot of pun-laden one-liners, but Gilbert's trademark satire and topsy-turvy plot complications are subdued in comparison with the other Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

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