"Bulworth" is a satire about a politician going through something of a midlife crisis.
Of course, it was a satire of teen-message movies, with a 400-pound transvestite in the lead.
Mr Walser says his book is merely a satire about the abuse of power in the literary world.
The film, a satire on the Cold War, starring Peter Sellars delighted and provoked audiences around the world.
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The hashtag is a play on "omnishambles, " from the BBC TV series "The Thick of It, " a satire of British government.
In this case, the controversy happens to concern a satire on demagoguery.
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At its best, "The Simpsons" is as cruel a satire on American culture -- or the lack of it -- as anything on prime time.
Perhaps Mr Arroyo's pamphlet should be read as a satire of Spanish inferiority and small-mindedness faced by the next-door riches of France with its art, its food, its countryside and its writing.
Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park - a satire about race and class - won a Tony and an Olivier earlier this year, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama last year.
Few directors risk upstaging their movies with credit sequences as effervescent as the one with which Sacha Guitry (who also wrote the script and stars) opens this 1936 comedy: in a miniature satire on life behind the scenes on a movie set, he introduces the cast and crew, tipping his hand regarding the tricks of the trade.
More than a simple satire on conservative social mores, "Bridegroom" is a metaphysical mystery.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a broad satire of musician biopics like Walk the Line, proves that (a) the conventions of biopics really are lame, and (b) you can get a lot of laughs out of basically one joke if your lead is John C.
Ms. Bocco picked up one film for IFC Midnight, the distributor's genre label: Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia's "As Luck Would Have It, " a bleak satire starring Salma Hayek as the wife of an advertising executive who becomes a celebrity after a catastrophic accident.
In turn, a recent satire by the Daily Show mocks the critics.
The title comes from an 1844 Edgar Allan Poe story oddly enough, a comic satire rather than one of his macabre mysteries.
"I think this is actually the best time to have a political satire program in Egypt, " he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
What distinguishes the latest round of scandals in the minds of voters, analysts say, is the window they provide into a world of decadence worthy of a Fellini satire.
In 1928 he made "Film Study" (a Man Ray-ish exercise in which images of circles dissolve into eyeballs), "Ghosts Before Breakfast" (a daffy comedy reliant on special effects, such as hats that fly and garden hoses that come "alive, " accompanied by a Paul Hindemith score), and "Inflation" (a political satire about the German economic ravages of the day).
Recent concerns about too-skinny models, increasing interest in exposing Photoshopped versions of already-beautiful people, and of course the constant use of celebrity plastic surgery as a topic for satire suggest that there is a broad undercurrent of distrust about body modification that places people too far outside a certain norm.
Apple Front fits into a broader tradition of using satire to make a political point, according to Edward Vallance, a historian at Roehampton University who works on radical protest groups.
Is America really so celebrity obsessed that a comedian can put on an entertaining performance of satire in front of a political body and no one so much as raises a finger at the weirdness of it all?
I'd like to think Artinfo's writer is engaged in a terrific act of satire, spoofing art-world pretension.
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As the Christopher Guest movie "Best In Show" made clear, dog competitions are a world ripe for satire, with numerous eccentric characters and rituals.
This social satire, a huge hit in Germany, was written by Bernd Lichtenberg and Wolfgang Becker and directed by Becker, whose background is in German TV.
Yet this is far from the first time his distinctive style of political satire - a fixture of national newspapers and magazines for decades - has been the subject of intense debate.
Given the likelihood that a tweet will be encountered without context, subtle satire does not play well during a disaster.
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With a sharp eye for telling details, he avoids satire and bathos and creates characters of a rare complexity, which his incisive yet passionate visual style (with its rare attention to light and its absence) realizes empathetically.
In a bid to begin contending with this dismal reality, in early 2009 I launched a Hebrew-language media satire website called Latma.
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