It was an age when satirists could be sure of patronage and promotion.

International media coverage of his win reported his humble background, poetry, intellect and short stature ( he stands ), with The Washington Post noting " local satirists sometimes depict him as an elf, hobbit or leprechaun talking in riddles and verse ".

Jonathan Wild ( baptised 6 May 1683 – 24 May 1725 ) was perhaps the most infamous criminal of London — and possibly Great Britain — during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists made of them.

Other poets of the period are Soror Violante do Ceo, and Frei Jeronymo Vahia, convinced Gongorists, Frei Bernardo de Brito with the " Sylvia de Lizardo ", and the satirists, D. Thomas de Noronha and Antonio Serrão de Castro.

He co-starred in the PBS " Travels " series special " America with the Top Down " and appeared in " But Seriously " and " But seriously 94 ", Showtime documentaries featuring prominent social satirists from Lenny Bruce to the present.

Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden.

It was then hosted by William Vandyck and featured much the same line-up of comedians and satirists.

Among his friends and acquaintances were many English artists and satirists of the period, for instance, Francis Hayman, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne.

In the eighteenth century, German satirists adopted episodes for social satire, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century versions of the tales are bowdlerized, to render them fit for children, who had come to be considered their chief natural audience, by expurgating their many scatological references.

" However Nev Peirce on the BBC's website panned the film, saying " Sadly, Peter Richardson suffers the fate of many satirists ; in trying to mock bad movies, he's simply made a bad movie " The film grossed £ 148, 326 on its opening weekend across 170 screens in the UK

The phrase was also quoted on a regular basis over many years by Australian satirists John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver in their comedy personae as sporting commentators Roy Slaven and HG Nelson

" However Nev Peirce on the BBC's website panned the film, saying " Sadly, Peter Richardson suffers the fate of many satirists ; in trying to mock bad movies, he's simply made a bad movie " The film grossed only £ 148, 326 on its opening weekend across 170 screens in the UK

The venue allowed the opportunity for budding comedians and satirists to perform new material in a nightclub setting, outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain, whose censorship of language and content was a problem for many performers.

Such passages were easy pickings for satirists such as Jane Austen demonstrated in Northanger Abbey as well as many of her other novels and works.

Like many politicians, Heffer was a target for satirists who would highlight his left-wing attitude.

Brain Damage was one of many comics emulating the success of Viz ; however whereas most of its peers were crude, low-quality Viz imitiations, Brain Damage attempted to capture the quality end of the market, with contributions from recognised cartoonists and satirists and a strong element of UK alternative politics.

They were chroniclers and satirists whose job it was to praise their employers and damn those who crossed them.

They were chroniclers and satirists whose job it was to praise their employers and damn those who crossed them.

He is one of the most remarkable poets, satirists and social critics of Iran ( Persia ), whose works have not received proper attention in the past.

Tom Brown, Ned Ward, and Tom D ' Urfey were all satirists in prose and poetry whose works appeared in the early part of the Augustan age.

Tom Brown, Ned Ward, and Tom D ' Urfey were all satirists in prose whose works appeared in the early part of the Augustan age.

The Soviet satirists Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov had their hero Ostap Bender tell the story of the Wandering Jew's death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists in The Little Golden Calf.

The Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and the Bishop of London Richard Bancroft banned the Scourge and had it publicly burned, along with copies of works by other satirists, on 4 June 1599.

Koine Greek spread all over the Empire, even up the Rhone valley of Gaul ; Roman satirists complained that even Rome had become a Greek city.

Jello Biafra's biting lyrics tackled the sociopolitical concerns of the Reagan era with a distinct sense of morbid humor and satire, following in the footsteps of such earlier rock satirists as Frank Zappa and non-musical countercultural figures like Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Bruce.

Roman satirists ever after referred to the year as " the consulship of Julius and Caesar.

Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.

The two most prominent and influential ancient Roman satirists are Horace and Juvenal, who wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire.

Other important satirists in ancient Latin are Lucilius and Persius.

Butler was also influenced by satirists such as John Skelton and Paul Scarron's Virgile travesti ; a satire on classical literature, particularly Virgil.

Twentieth-century Progressive advocates, muckraking journalists, and political satirists argued to the general public that the policies of vote buying and excessive corporate and moneyed influence were abandoning the interests of millions of taxpayers.

Along with Jaroslav Hašek, Karel Čapek and Milan Kundera — likewise imaginative and amusing satirists — he is considered one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century.

Quiz shows were lampooned on It Pays to Be Ignorant, and other memorable parodies were presented by such satirists as Spike Jones, Stoopnagle and Budd, Stan Freberg and Bob and Ray.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote an article entitled, " Attacks on ' Roger & Me ' completely miss point of film " that defends Moore's manipulation of his film's timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that has less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a viewpoint using the same methods that satirists have used.

A little more power of restraining his egotism and passion would have made him one of the wittiest and keenest of modern satirists, and his comic poems are timeless.

As described by Barcan, this period saw the emergence of mainstream talents like poets Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann, journalists David Solomon, Mungo MacCallum ( Jnr ) and Laurie Oakes, Oz magazine satirists Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp, and maverick writer Bob Ellis.

Douglas-Home was the target of satirists on BBC television and in Private Eye magazine.

Major satirists included John Trumbull and Francis Hopkinson.

The Doctrina preserves fragments from early dramatists, annalists, satirists, and antiquarian writers.

But with respect to speech concerning public figures, penalizing the intent to inflict emotional harm, without also requiring that the speech that inflicts that harm to be false, would subject political cartoonists and other satirists to large damage awards.

He was one of the most widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.