Adam's presentation of the principle is satirical — facetious but also addressing a real-world concern.

It has been suggested that this was because of objections to either its use of stock news footage of a public execution in Lagos, or its presentation of characters designed to be satirical analogues of Mary Whitehouse, Cliff Richard and Lord Longford.

One unusual project from this collection is Apocamon: The Final Judgement, a satirical, stylized presentation of the Book of Revelation in a graphic style similar to the Pokémon trading card game and a writing style similar to the comic book tracts of Jack T. Chick.

Although the songs in question were satirical in nature, the presentation was denounced as offensive.

" Various episodes also feature sketches based around BBC2 presentation, including satirical continuity announcers and faux-pas trailers ; this humour is similar to Kenny Everett's jokes towards Thames Television and later, BBC1.

His didactic poem, L ’ ensenhamen d ’ onor, and his love songs and satirical pieces have little in common with Dante's presentation, but the invective against negligent princes which Dante puts into his mouth in the 7th canto of the Purgatorio is more adequately parallelled in his sirventes-planh ( 1237 ) on the death of his patron Blacatz, where he invites the princes of Christendom to feed on the heart of the hero.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

Three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England in 1928: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

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 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.

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.

Alan of Lille was not the author of a Memoriale rerum difficilium, published under his name, nor of Moralium dogma philosophorum, nor of the satirical Apocalypse of Golias once attributed to him ; and it is exceedingly doubtful whether the Dicta Alani de lapide philosophico really issued from his pen.

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.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday.

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.

" 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.

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.

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

Epigrams are also thought of as having a " point " that is, the poem ends in a punchline or satirical twist.

Edwin Abbott Abbott ( 20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926 ), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland ( 1884 ).

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

His work, written in a unique and articulate style, is often satirical and opinionated.

The satirical Alexamenos graffito is believed to be the earliest known representation of Jesus.

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

The motif was also adopted by Lucian of Samosata in his " Sale of Creeds ," in which the duo is sold together as a complementary product in the satirical auction of philosophers.

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

His early works contain music that is both satirical and politically engaged.

In Italy, the term " radical chic " ( borrowed from American journalist Tom Wolfe's satirical 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers ) is used.

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.

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.

The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

A satirical monument to Anton Chekhov, who made an Anton Chekhov # Sakhalin | unfavorable mention of Tomsk in his diaries while traveling through the city on his way to Sakhalin

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 ".

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.