His inner columnist enjoys lampooning the absurdities of Brussels bureaucracy and scorning dreams of further European integration.

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One littered with fierce criticism from the British press, which has enjoyed nothing more than lampooning Rooney and McLoughlin for being 'common.

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Slim Jim launched a "man medicine" ad campaign last year, lampooning men whose increasing life responsibilities lead them to wear baby carriers and lug shopping bags.

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One was Lloyd Grove, a wry, acerbic writer for the paper's Style section who specialized in lampooning the idiosyncracies and idiocies of politicians of all stripes.

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But when Vayenas is not playing in the young entertainer's trombone section (or lampooning him during an onstage skit), he's writing his own futuristic-sounding instrumental jazz.

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Publisher Arthur Fifield was lampooning Stein's style.

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Bassem Youssef is a doctor who shot to fame after winning a huge number of followers with his witty lampooning of public figures in amateur videos posted on the internet following the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule.

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Bassem Youssef is a doctor who shot to fame after winning a large number of followers with his witty lampooning of public figures in amateur videos posted on the internet following the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's rule in February 2011.

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