Trilogy ( 1975 ) of satirical conspiracy fiction novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

Join My Cult is a subversive, satirical novel written by James Curcio and released by New Falcon Publications ( publisher of some notable counter-culture authors such Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, and Aleister Crowley ).

The satirical element of the pamphlet is often only understood after the reader notes the allusions made by Swift to the attitudes of landlords, such as the following: " I grant this food may be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for Landlords, who as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

At the same time he interacted with colleagues, fellow breadwinners who had satirical disposition towards even their worst troubles.

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 ?".

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

John Edward Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 17 June 1985 ) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 5 November 2001 ), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

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.

* South Park, The town of South park is beset by smug, in the episode Smug Alert !, a satirical reference to both smog and celebrities who wish to prevent environmental degradation.

Mwanawasa was accused by some observers of demonstrating an authoritarian streak in early 2004 when his Minister of Home Affairs issued a deportation order to a British citizen and long-time Zambian resident Roy Clarke, who had published a series of satirical attacks on the President in the independent Post newspaper.

Wilhelm Busch ( 15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908 ) was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.

The noble savage achieved prominence as an oxymoronic rhetorical device after 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for a satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, who wished to disassociate himself from 18th and early 19th-century romantic primitivism.

Furthermore, the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné revealed the astronomical " food expenses " paid by the Parisian municipality (€ 15 million a year according to the Canard ), expenses managed by Roger Romani ( who allegedly destroyed all archives of the period 1978 – 1993 during night raids in 1999 – 2000 ).

The ninots and their falles are constructed according to an agreed upon theme that has traditionally been, and continues to be, a satirical jab at anything or anyone who draws the attention of the critical eyes of the falleros — the celebrants themselves.

Around 1711, Pope made friends with Tory writers John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Parnell and John Arbuthnot, who together formed the satirical Scriblerus Club.

William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton ( 18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996 ) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.

The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family ; an eccentric, wealthy clan who delight in the macabre and are unaware that people find them bizarre or frightening.

The picaresque novel ( Spanish: " picaresca ," from " pícaro ," for " rogue " or " rascal ") is a popular sub-genre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts, in realistic and often humorous detail, the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society.

In Wyndham Lewis ' 1930 satirical novel The Apes of God, there is a character named Horace Zagreus who serves as mentor of the hapless protagonist, Daniel Boleyn.

satirical tale where the Wandering Jew is a successful businessman who subverts the Second Coming.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

" Published in the Nationalist magazine, her poem, Similar Cases was a satirical review of people who resisted social change and she received positive feedback from critics for it.

In 1987, he directed eight episodes of the satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer !, including the episode, " Hammer Hits the Rock " in season two, where he made an uncredited appearance as " Zeke " ( prisoner in cell No. 76 ).

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

Under the dictatorship of Franco the celebration lost much of its satirical nature because of government censorship, but the monuments were among the few fervent public expressions allowed then, and they could be made freely in Valencia.

Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her directorial debut in the television film Hope ( 1997 ) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.

In 1659, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).

Whistler made various caricatures of his former patron, including a biting satirical painting called The Gold Scab, just after Whistler declared bankruptcy.

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

He had already made some translations from the French language, and written some humorous and satirical pieces and in 1694, Molesworth published his Account of Denmark, in which he treated the Danes and their monarch with great contempt.

In the years that followed, Ogilby's reputation as a translator was to suffer from the attacks made on him by John Dryden in his satirical MacFlecknoe, and by Alexander Pope in The Dunciad.

The weekly satirical magazine Ulk (" Prank ") had published the short text Märchen (" Fairy Tale ") in 1907 in which the 17-year-old Tucholsky made fun of Kaiser Wilhelm II's taste in art.

In lighter vein, West starred as patriarch Bradley Hardacre in Granada TV's satirical Northern super-soap Brass over three seasons ( 1982 – 1990 ), and made a memorable appearance as Professor Furie in A Very Peculiar Practice in 1986.

At Last the 1948 Show is a satirical TV show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions ( although it was not credited on the programmes ), in association with Rediffusion London.

The definitive edition was made by Constantine Cephalas in the 10th century, who added a number of other collections: homoerotic verse collected by Straton of Sardis in the 2nd century AD ; a collection of Christian epigrams found in churches ; a collection of satirical and convivial epigrams collected by Diogenianus ; Christodorus ' description of statues in the Byzantine gymnasium of Zeuxippos ; and a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus.

As a result the argument has been made that it may have been a common satirical verse that was adapted as appropriate and, because it was recorded in roughly the modern form, has become fixed on the Duke of York.

Some visits to Bath, however, where from 1770 until his death in 1805, he made No. 4 Royal Crescent his permanent home, ( albeit the plaque recording this is actually displayed outside No. 5 ) where in 1766 he penned his famous rhymed letters, The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family ..., a satirical poem of considerable sparkle, about the adventures of the " Blunderhead " family in Bath, from which Tobias Smollett is said to have drawn largely in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

His last recorded song, made two weeks before his death, was a duet with Messene of Irving Berlin's satirical song on Hitler, " When That Man is Dead and Gone ".

A satirical presentation of the island's lesbian colony is made in Mackenzie's 1928 novel Extraordinary Women ( unrelated to the Dominican film of the same name ), inspired by the affairs of American painter Romaine Brooks ( in the novel, under the pseudonym of Olimpia Leigh ).

As they often did with fairy tales and children's classics, Warner Brothers ' Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoon unit made frequent use of Red's story for satirical purposes.

His father's debts forced him to look for a means of supporting himself, and at the age of sixteen, he joined the army in Dalmatia ; three years later he returned to Venice, where he soon made a reputation for himself as the wittiest member of the Granelleschi Society, to which the publication of several satirical pieces had gained him admission.