Words similar to satire

Example sentences for: satire

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Former New York magazine editor, Spy co-founder, and current New Yorker writer Kurt Andersen's satire of late-'90s culture wins good reviews, but many carp about its weaknesses.
Critics applaud the selection of the absurdist Italian playwright, even while calling him the "most obscure Nobel winner" in years (David Streitfeld, the Washington Post ). Fo's work, especially Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), is celebrated for combining trenchant left-wing satire with slapstick humor "reminiscent of vintage Marx Brothers" (Rick Lyman, the New York Times ). Conservative critics echo the Vatican, which condemned the choice of the anti-clericalist and ex-Communist as an act that "has surpassed all imagination."
But satire requires a critical stance, while The Man Show requires jokes about women drivers and farting monkeys.
1. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut . This breathlessly vulgar, hyperbolic, Swiftian satire of the notion that movies "warp our fragile little minds" is our generation's Duck Soup --not to mention the most inventive movie musical in decades.
Kekiongas was apparently chosen more for its poetry and local color than for any drollery or satire at the expense of Native Americans.