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This usage dates from 1843 when Punch magazine applied the term to satirical drawings in its pages, particularly sketches by John Leech.
Vertical typographical emoticons were published in 1881 by the U. S. satirical magazine Puck.
Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.
He was one of the two founders ( 1841 ) of the satirical and humorous magazine Punch, and the magazine's joint-editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days.
Initially it was subtitled The London Charivari, this being a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France under the title Le Charivari ( a work read often whilst Mayhew was in Paris ).
Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than 2, 000, 000 during its 1970s circulation peak.
Initially it was subtitled The London Charivari, this being a reference to a satirical humour magazine published in France as Le Charivari.
Around this time, Cook provided financial backing for the satirical magazine Private Eye, supporting it through difficult periods, particularly in libel trials.
Milligan contributed occasional cartoons to the satirical magazine Private Eye.
During this period the magazine included lots of features such as the satirical comic strip Thrud the Barbarian and Dave Langford's " Critical Mass " book review column, as well as a comical advertising series " The Androx Diaries ", and always had cameos and full scenarios for a broad selection of the most popular games of the time, as well as a more rough and informal editorial style.
Cultural critic Karl Kraus, with his brilliantly controversial magazine Die Fackel, advanced the field of satirical journalism, becoming the literary and political conscience of this era.
The satirical magazine Punch responded to it by publishing a parody of Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib including a wry commentary on Grace's contribution:
* October 25 – The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published.
Tove Jansson worked as illustrator and cartoonist for the Swedish-language satirical magazine Garm from the 1930s to 1953.
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.
In 1991, Frank magazine ran a satirical ad for a contest inviting young Tories to " deflower Caroline Mulroney ," the then-Prime Minister's oldest child.
The magazine took the position that they were simply saying in a satirical fashion that Mulroney was using his daughter as an election campaign prop.
: In the early 1970s the satirical magazine Private Eye had a crossword set by the Labour MP Tom Driberg, under the pseudonym of " Tiresias " ( supposedly " a distinguished academic churchman ").
There he became a political journalist and published the satirical magazine " Mephistopheles " ( 1847 / 48-1852 ).
The name Crystal Palace ( the satirical magazine Punch usually gets the credit for coining the phrase ) was later used to denote this area of south London and the park that surrounds the site, home of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.
Thatcher performed a short sketch with Eddington and Hawthorne on 20 January 1984 at a ceremony where the writers were presented with an award from Mary Whitehouse's NVLA, an event commemorated on the cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye.
As a consequence of these lacklustre performers, the satirical British fortnightly magazine Private Eye has been critical of Branson and his companies ( see Private Eye image caption ).
The area is also home to the left-wing Labour magazine Tribune and the satirical magazine the Hampstead Village Voice.
* Punch ( Danish magazine ), an illustrated conservative Danish satirical magazine ( 1873-1894 )

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These characteristics were exaggerated in Private Eye's satirical column " Mrs Wilson's Diary ".
Rushton and Barry Fantoni ( another Private Eye contributor ) entered a painting Nude Reclining, a satirical portrait of three establishment types, for the 1963 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition under the name of ' Stuart Harris ' which excited much controversy.
Keillor and the ensemble perform comedy skits, such as the satirical " Guy Noir, Private Eye ", which parodies film noir and radio dramas.
Trevor-Roper denied any dishonest motivation, explaining that he had been given certain assurances as to how the diaries had come into the possession of their " discoverer " and that these assurances had been wrong, prompting the satirical magazine Private Eye to nickname him Hugh Very-Ropey.
St Albion Parish News was a regular feature in the British satirical magazine Private Eye during the premiership of Tony Blair.
" The LSO's difficulties were compounded by the satirical magazine Private Eye, which ran a series of defamatory articles about the orchestra.
* Private Eye, a satirical British magazine-newspaper
Members of the group are parodied in a regular cartoon strip by Birch, titled " Young British Artists ", in the British satirical magazine Private Eye.
Clark was awarded a life peerage in 1969, taking the title Baron Clark, of Saltwood in the County of Kent ( the British satirical magazine Private Eye nicknamed him Lord Clark of Civilisation ).
He was also a shareholder in Pressdram Ltd, the company that owned the satirical magazine Private Eye.
The fictional Dollis Hill Football Club features occasionally in the British satirical magazine Private Eye as arch-rivals to Neasden Football Club, with on at least one occasion the fictional Dollis Hill South council ward used in the irregular Those Election Results In Full mock section.
An early example of his work is the logo he designed for the fortnightly British satirical magazine Private Eye in May 1962, still used today.
After briefly working in advertising, a profession he grew to dislike intensely, Scarfe's early caricatures of public figures were published in satirical magazine Private Eye throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, playfully alluded towards Owen's legendary tendency towards self-destruction.
* Private Eye, a British satirical magazine

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Paxman and his presenting style were also frequently parodied by comedian Chris Morris in the satirical TV series The Day Today and Brass Eye.

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President Mwanawasa, true to his mantra of heading a government of laws, respected the court decision and Clarke was allowed to resume his column of satirical critique.
* Louis XVII is the subject of an advice column appearing in the satirical newspaper The Onion called ' Ask the Dauphin ,' which portrays him as a spoiled brat.
Published by the Union of Clare Students, it comprises satirical articles mocking Cambridge traditions, reports on silly student antics, and college gossip in the " Clareifornication " column.
Vanity Fair magazine invited Dame Edna to write a satirical advice column in 2003 although after an outcry following a remark about learning Spanish, the column was discontinued.
In 2003 Vanity Fair magazine invited Dame Edna to write a satirical advice column.
Features in the magazine include a news column ; detailed profiles (" Pillars of Society " and " The Young Bloods "); " Affairs of the Nation ", which looks at political scandals ; " Bog Cuttings " which consists of humorous and unusual events outside Dublin ( often bizarre court cases ), " Hush Hush " and " On the beat ", which deals with security and intelligence matters ; and a satirical section, " Craic and Codology ".
Dr. Matrix was the satirical creation of popular mathematics columnist Martin Gardner ( 1914-2010 ), who reported some of his doings in his " Mathematical Games " column in Scientific American beginning in 1959.
He also ran a bookshop in Caernarfon, wrote a column for the Western Mail, and edited Lol !, a satirical magazine.
In his earlier, satirical Aesthete column in Frank magazine Coren was by his own admission deliberately provocative.
He was popularly known as Whispers after the name of the column he wrote for The Daily Nation from 1982 to 2003, offering a satirical view of the trials and tribulations of Kenyan life.
Between 1988 and 1990 he wrote the Daily Telegraph ` s The Way of the World column ( a satirical column originated by Michael Wharton ), and in 1990 swapped places with Auberon Waugh to become a weekly columnist on The Sunday Telegraph, where he has remained to this day.
He is known for creating the satirical column " The Borowitz Report ", which has an audience in the millions and was acquired by The New Yorker.
Caitlin Moran ( born 5 April 1975 as Catherine Elizabeth Moran ) is a British broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column " Celebrity Watch ".
Since 1997, a nephew of his, also named Nick Galifianakis, has been drawing the satirical cartoons that accompany the advice column " Tell Me About It " in the Washington Post tri-weekly.
Stob was described as " the author of the longest-running satirical column on computer programming " by her fellow columnist, Andrew Orlowski.
He frequently collaborated with his friend Joseph Dennie, including co-writing a satirical column which appeared in Dennie's newspaper The Farmer's Weekly Museum.
# The Advice section includes Miss Information, Sex Advice From ..., a satirical look at other advice columns called Awesome Advice-Way to Go, and Dan Savage's syndicated column, Savage Love.
Another satirical section, titled Tablete (" Tablets ") and contributed by Tudor Arghezi, existed between 1947 and 1948 ; it came to an abrupt end when Arghezi was banned, having been singled out for his " decadent " poetry in Sorin Toma's ideological column for Scînteia, the main communist mouthpiece ( see Socialist realism in Romania ).
It is so widespread that the British satirical magazine Private Eye chronicles the over-use of the phrase in its column " Neophiliacs ".

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