This material was later used as an element of his satirical US presidential campaign in 1968, and was included on his 1968 comedy album Pat Paulsen for President.

Struck by the effect produced on the audience by the introduction of the supernatural or mythical element, which he had merely used as a convenient medium for his satirical purposes, Gozzi produced a series of dramatic pieces based on fairy tales.

For example, in the highly satirical Paranoia, lethal PvP conflict is a core game element, considered normal and heavily encouraged by the rules and support materials.

Beginning in 1502 with religious pieces, conspicuous among them being " Auto da Alma " and the famous trilogy of the " Barcas ", he soon introduces the comic and satirical element by way of relief and for moral ends, and, before the close of his career in 1536, has arrived at pure comedy, as in " Ignez Pereira " and the " Floresta de Enganos ", and developed the study of character.

The satirical and farcical element which featured so strongly in Aristophanes ' comedies increasingly diminished in importance as time went on.

Many of the verses used by children had an element of transgression, and several have satirical aims.

Although some reviewers criticized the episode for its profanity and other material deemed offensive at the time of its original broadcast, several others felt " Weight Gain 4000 " was a significant improvement over the pilot, particularly for its satirical element regarding American consumerism.

Eric Mink of the New York Daily News called the episode " awfully funny " and praised its satirical element, although he warned it was potentially very offensive to some viewers: " A scene in which the kids offer profane between-rounds encouragement to Jesus could make even thick-skinned viewers wince a bit.

This satirical element meant that many of them risked censorship and banning — as was the case with Gay's successor to The Beggar's Opera, Polly.

Regular comedies ( i. e. comedies in five acts modeled on Plautus or Terence and the precepts of Aelius Donatus ) were less frequent on the stage than tragedies and tragicomedies at the turn of the century ; the comedic element of the early stage was dominated by farce, satirical monologues and by the commedia dell ' arte.

In 1703, he published a satirical pamphlet against the High Tories and in favour of religious tolerance entitled The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters ; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church.

* July 29 – July 31 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory, then imprisoned for four months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet ( his release is granted in mid-November ).

* Il teatro alla moda, a satirical pamphlet by Benedetto Marcello, is published anonymously in Venice.

The Scots Holding Their Young King's Nose To the Grindstone, from a satirical English pamphlet When negotiations stalled, Charles authorised General Montrose to land in the Orkney Islands with a small army to threaten the Scots with invasion, in the hope of forcing an agreement more to his liking.

Marcello vented his opinions on the state of musical drama at the time in the satirical pamphlet Il teatro alla moda, published anonymously in Venice in 1720.

Jackson has actively campaigned against smoking bans in both the United States and the United Kingdom, writing a 2005 pamphlet The Smoking Issue, a 2007 essay Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State, and issuing a satirical song (" In 20-0-3 ") on the subject.

Hanno was also the subject of a satirical pamphlet by Pietro Aretino titled " The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno.

When Hanno the elephant, pet of Pope Leo X, died in 1516, Aretino penned a satirical pamphlet entitled " The Last Will and Testament of the Elephant Hanno.

George Horne's publications included a satirical pamphlet entitled The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis ( 1751 ), a defense of the Hutchinsonians ( 1753 ), and critiques on William Law ( 1758 ) and Benjamin Kennicott ( 1760 ).

" 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft " is a satirical Vietnam War protest pamphlet written in 1966 by Robert Bashlow and Tuli Kupferberg.

French Catholic librarian Jean-Baptiste Pérès wrote a satirical refutation of Dupuis's work under the title of Grand Erratum ( 1827 ), in which he maintains, in parallel to Dupuis's thesis that the cult of Christ is merely a cult of the Sun, that Napoleon ( who, in reality, died a mere six years before the publication of the pamphlet ) never existed, but was only a sun myth.

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* Pierre Viret Le Monde démoniacle ( 1561 ) satirical pamphlet

In 1985 Mikhail Ulyanov staged the satirical pamphlet The Child Buyer by the American playwright John Hersey.

The Killian Nine were a group of high school students at Miami Killian High School who, on February 23, 1998, made a satirical pamphlet called " First Amendment " and passed it out to fellow students.

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 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.